Supreme Court steps into debate over where to store nuclear waste

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6. it's not leaking, it just sits there....

it just sits there. ... happily sending out alpha particles, betas, and gamma rays every second, day and night.

𝝰 are not very bad since they are readily stopped in a few meters. As long as you don't breathe/smoke them in or ingest them

?s are more energetic and penetrating---either as normal electrons or positrons. Best avoided.

gammas are very bad, as high-energy X-rays, they knock electrons around, break chemical bonds, ruin atoms, fracture nuclei, and deposit energy where it is unwanted.
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I was involved in numerous evaluations for the DOE--from salt domes to granite to sending to the Sun.... Obama made two big mistakes: Yucca Mountain was a well-thought-out plan, but NIMBY. Obama killed it.

Little known but significant: thorium reactors (and others) can actually "burn" trans-mutate half-life exhausted elements and make good energy. Obama killed the program,. He never said why.