Reply With QuoteThe most commonly-used form, plutonium 239, has a half-life of 24,000 years.
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There are various grades of nuclear waste, with some grades of plutonium having half-lives of up to 80 million years. That long enough for you?Originally Posted by Eevo
Also, all storage of nuclear waste in the USA is temporary. There is NO permanent storage solution. Burial in mine shafts could contaminate the groundwater supply.
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The most commonly-used form, plutonium 239, has a half-life of 24,000 years.
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SubscriberWhat about Thorium? I’ve heard it is a better alternative to uranium.
The way lithium is extracted from the ground and chemicals used to dissolve the soil doesn’t sound good either. They can’t go to landfill afterwards.
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Subscriberwe can now use this "waste" as fuel. therefor, not waste.
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do you know the longer the halflife, the less radioactive it is.
something with a halflife of 80million years would not be a threat at all.
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Are you volunteering to test it?
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SupporterThe older glow in the dark watches contained radium which has a half life of 1600 years and yet they are not too harmful unless you eat one
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SubscriberThe RAAF just spent a small fortune on going through every box of spare parts for every aircraft that had instrumentation that contained radium dials - and removed anything that did for disposal - they had an entire old storage warehouse cordoned off as 'radioactive' for 6 months while doing this in just one location despite they fact it had all been sitting there for decades.The older glow in the dark watches contained radium which has a half life of 1600 years and yet they are not too harmful unless you eat one. Security wasn't what you'd call 'tight' - 'If you go in there, just don't touch anything that is glowing'
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found this , this morning , interesting but long read.
it is also written in the negative but the information is very good about comparitive costs to alternatives.
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yes.
in fact there is only 1 isotope with a halflife of 80million years and its not even produced in a nuclear reactor.
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