&quot;The problem is we don&#x27;t even know what it means to deal with waste for 10,000 years.&quot;<p>After a couple of hundred years it&#x27;s no more radioactive than the ore from which it came.<p>Anyone who pulls the &quot;long half-life&quot; ploy doesn&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re talking about.<p>Long half-life = less radioactive. By definition.<p>I mean, you do know that &quot;half-life of infinity&quot; is the same thing as &quot;not radioactive at all&quot;, right?