[idlewords]

The fears aren't so irrational. They reflect the fact that we don't know how to assess and manage risk over the kinds of timescales required to safely handle nuclear waste.

[Turing_Machine]

After a couple of hundred years the waste is no more radioactive than the ore from which it came.

Although the fear-mongers never mention this,"long half-life" means "less radioactive". By definition.