Eli5: What is so bad about the waste of nuclear power plants? Why are many governments so against it? What is so hard about storing the waste in a safe place?
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Radioactive and toxic so gives everyone cancer and horrible poisoning.
Can take thousands or millions of years to break down so it keeps on poisoning everyone.
Storing it safely that won’t get flooded or earthquake or built on etc in all that millions of years is pretty hard to do.
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