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kleinbl00  ·  3441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is your fear of radiation irrational?

An idea floated around at Los Alamos National Labs was to bombard low-level waste with high-energy neutrons in order to convert it to high-level waste. The advantage of high-level over low-level is that it has a radically shorter half-life of decades rather than millennia. "Let's make it nastier so it burns out quicker" didn't get a lot of traction, though.