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[–] naught101 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The half life of fall-out from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was a couple of decades.

The half life of nuclear waste from powerplants is anywhere from thousands of years to millions of years, depending on the mix of isotopes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

anywhere from thousands of years to millions of years

only in a strictly thermal reactor environment, if you're using a fast reactor, something like the SSR that is currently being worked on in canada, it can both burn waste, and reduce it's lifespan to a much more reasonable length.

As always, development is the problem, if we had more energy being focused on this, we would be farther along, but such is scientific development.