• uis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t even factor the space abandonned to store «normal» toxic materials.

    You mean under ground from where it was dug out?

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      1 year ago

      The plant itself, water inevitably getting in contact with wastes and leaking also.

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        1 year ago

        You mean water under ground? It was in contact million years before any of us was born.

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          Million years were sufficient for the radioactivity to decay before life started to evolve on earth.