A Physician's Perspective on Nuclear Waste
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Nuclear Waste Is Dangerous, but We've Learned How to Manage It Very Well
In 60 years of civilian nuclear power, has there ever been a death associated with storing spent nuclear fuel or nuclear waste? You can't find a single one. Nuclear waste is this kind of bogeyman, where it's well, there's no solution for it's very dangerous. It is dangerous, but we've learned how to manage it very, very well. That danger, of course, also decreases over time. So essentially, again, as I was saying, the danger is if this stuff gets ingested into your body somehow.
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