The longer the half life, the less radioactive it is. Uranium really isn't dangerous as a source of radiation, it's more dangerous as a heavy metal poison. Thing is, uranium isn't really what they're worried about, it's the stuff with half lives in the range of ~30 to ~10,000 years. Those are the dangerous isotopes with high activity and often nefarious properties to go along with it. For instance Strontium-90 and Caesium-137 both have half lives of several decades, so they don't go away quickly, but they're still decaying rapidly enough to be quite radioactive. They also dissolve readily in water and thus are capable of rapidly contaminating a wide area. For many of these hotter isotopes, there are solvents and acids that can dissolve them into solution for cleanup, as well as compounds called ligands which selectively bond with the particular elements needing extraction. Most of the time though, radioactive material and soil will just be contained and stored on-site until the really nasty isotopes decay away, then the next processing steps can be taken.
@@JohnMaxGriffin in other words this crap brings death and sickness, cancer. Clean up bull . It's just containment. These idiots are poisoning our world they are liers and proven to be liers. Clean up is the lie it's containment. And where? For how long? These clowns will dead. So it will always be containment until the world is full of this death crap.
It’s 2024. Be cool to get a follow up story
Lol 4.4billion yrs is the half life insane to think theyre really doing anything to clean up
You can clean it, it just takes a special type of processing.
The longer the half life, the less radioactive it is. Uranium really isn't dangerous as a source of radiation, it's more dangerous as a heavy metal poison. Thing is, uranium isn't really what they're worried about, it's the stuff with half lives in the range of ~30 to ~10,000 years. Those are the dangerous isotopes with high activity and often nefarious properties to go along with it. For instance Strontium-90 and Caesium-137 both have half lives of several decades, so they don't go away quickly, but they're still decaying rapidly enough to be quite radioactive. They also dissolve readily in water and thus are capable of rapidly contaminating a wide area.
For many of these hotter isotopes, there are solvents and acids that can dissolve them into solution for cleanup, as well as compounds called ligands which selectively bond with the particular elements needing extraction. Most of the time though, radioactive material and soil will just be contained and stored on-site until the really nasty isotopes decay away, then the next processing steps can be taken.
@@JohnMaxGriffin Your A Fool... read the book.... POPULATION CONTROL THROUGH NUCLEAR POLLUTION
FixItStupid Lol what does that book have to do with anything I said? And specifically what in my comment makes me a fool?
@@JohnMaxGriffin in other words this crap brings death and sickness, cancer. Clean up bull . It's just containment. These idiots are poisoning our world they are liers and proven to be liers. Clean up is the lie it's containment. And where? For how long? These clowns will dead. So it will always be containment until the world is full of this death crap.