Talk:Radioactive waste

Cost of Storing Radioactive Waste Through Staff

If we take some of the models of storing radioactive waste at 10,000, 100,000 or 1 million years.

I was just wondering if there was a security personnel and there wage were say from the year 2000 as a baseline say a salary $10,000 per year.

What would the salary be of that person doing that job in 10,000, 100,000 or 1 million years time be?

I believe it would take more than one person to maintain such a facility to hold radioactive waste.

This is just a simple question on economics.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Supertoaster2 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 16 June 2009

Misrepresentation of source

In the section "Geologic disposal": "Aside from dilution, chemically toxic stable elements in some waste such as arsenic remain toxic for up to billions of years or indefinitely.[58]"

The source mentions arsenic in the context of long-term waste problems from carcinogenic elements from the buried wastes produced by non-nuclear methods of generating electricity ! The point being that while we worry about the danger of nuclear waste, these dangers dissapear with time, unlike those of non-nuclear carcinogens in the waste produced by fossile fuel plants. Ssscienccce (talk) 18:56, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

I might edit this a bit, in part because of misuse of words, using radioisotopes, rather than radionuclides. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graemem56 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Specifically, ¹¹C & ¹⁴C are radio-isotopes, ¹² & C¹³C are non-radioactive isotopes. But ¹⁴C, ⁴⁰K & ⁹⁰Sr are not radio-isotopes for the same reason that ¹²C, ⁴¹K & ⁸⁸Sr are not isotopes. ¹⁴C, ⁴⁰K & ⁹⁰Sr are radio-nuclides.Graemem56 (talk) 12:30, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Proliferation

In addition to plutonium-239, which is highly suitable for building nuclear weapons, it contains large amounts of undesirable contaminants: plutonium-240, plutonium-241, and plutonium-238. Pu240 has a high spontaneous fission rate, which complicates weapons design. Pu238 is an alpha emitter, I don't see SF specified. Does Pu241 also have a high SF rate? Gah4 (talk) 14:36, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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