[chickenbig]

> "Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24110 years"

Great, that means it is not very radioactive, and an alpha emitter, so unless you ingest it is not particularly harmful.

> societies have proven irresponsible with fuel life-cycle management

Do you have evidence that the spent nuclear fuel from power stations has killed people?

[Joel_Mckay]

>Do you have evidence that the spent nuclear fuel from power stations has killed people?

Did you mean intentional Polonium 210 exposure from decay chains, medical mistakes, or unintentional worker exposure to hot garbage.

I could have a look for you, but Google should already give several reasonable results to keep one entertained. =3

[chickenbig]

> intentional Polonium 210 from decay chains

What do you mean "decay chains"? Po-210 decays to Pb-206 which is stable. So you mean Po-210 decay. Let's shut down the chemical industry because someone attempted to poison The Skripals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_... .

> medical mistakes

Spent nuclear fuel is generally not used for medical isotopes. They specially prepare samples for irradiation to not have to use reprocessing, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60#Production .

> I could have a look for you

It would be illuminating to see what you find reasonable.

[Joel_Mckay]

1. Uranium miners have high risk of lung cancer due to radon gas and decay products.

https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/research/canadian-...

2. Workers exposed to alpha-emitting materials like plutonium/uranium show increased risk of lung cancer

https://www.ovid.com/jnls/epidem/fulltext/10.1097/ede.000000...

3. Plant operators within heavily regulated work areas are usually unaffected, and show an odd statistical wellness anomaly inconsistent with control groups. However, if one includes accidents/events with collateral impact:

https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/health/health-effe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...

4. Waste management incidents are difficult to quantify over 30000 year time scales. However, the industry has failed to even maintain containment for 30 years at some sites.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021716/http://www.katu.c...

>It would be illuminating to see what you find reasonable.

Cheap distributed sustainable infrastructure more robust against conflicts/regulatory-capture/arms-proliferation, and leave a light footprint for those yet to live here. Good luck, =3