MacroVoices #355 Mark Nelson: Understanding All Things Nuclear
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Nuclear Waste Is a Phantasm
Nuclear waste is not in a 55 gallon yellow barrel with a nuclear symbol on it. It's a phantom fear for this reason that if you ask somebody who doesn't like nuclear waste to describe for you what nuclear waste looks like and what form it takes, 99 times out of 100 they will struggle severely. Something you have to be scared of are things with a half life of minutes, days, hours, weeks or even a few years. That means you have something breaking down extremely quickly and therefore putting out radiation.
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