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VitriolicViolet t1_is85m6v wrote

>for one radiation is either dangerous or lasts for 10,000 years never both. due to how decay works the most dangerous half lives are in seconds minutes and hours, by the time you are hitting 2 hundred years its not much worse then background radiation.
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>next pyro-processing allows for recycling a good percentage of that total waste and does so by removing the shorter more dangerous half lives to re-use as fuel.
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>finally coal alone has released more radiation then all nuclear reactors, weapons, tests and accidents combined.
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>anyone who is afraid of nuclear but not oil or coal isn't rational enough to be part of the discussion.
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>i love that environmentalists are so ideological they chose to hurt the environment over using nuclear .

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>all accidents combined have killed less people and released less radiation than coal so what are you afraid of exactly?

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