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by blueflow 267 days ago
Nuclear-level containment on geological timescales is potentially impossible.

Its not like you can put it into a dump and its "gone" like household trash. Radioactivity is ionizing, so it corrodes all materials and cannot be physically contained. The earth's crust is to porous (i mentioned the radon problem in another post) to keep it underground.