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    4. How radioactive is spent nuclear fuel waste?
    How radioactive is spent nuclear fuel waste?

    Compare with yellow cake.

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      Radioactive enough that they are looking for a place to keep it for 10,000 years so it don't kill anyone if it leaks out of its storage containers.


      Yucca Mountain comes to mind. That's if they ever decide to put it there.

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