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  1. 16th June 2019, 08:45 PM #121
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    which waste is that?
    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?
    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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  2. 16th June 2019, 08:49 PM #122
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    The most commonly-used form, plutonium 239, has a half-life of 24,000 years.
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    What 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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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    The most commonly-used form, plutonium 239, has a half-life of 24,000 years.
    we can now use this "waste" as fuel. therefor, not waste.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    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?
    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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    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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  6. 17th June 2019, 06:17 AM #126
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    Are you volunteering to test it?
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    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by trout1105 View Post
    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
    The 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. Nuclear. Security wasn't what you'd call 'tight' - 'If you go in there, just don't touch anything that is glowing' Nuclear
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    Nuclear Power Costs Blowout all Over the World....

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Are you volunteering to test it?

    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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