Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n...
by pfdietz on Sunday August 26, 2018 @08:30AM
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Material will eventually be decaying in the environment at the same rate it is produced, in steady state. This is independent of the halflife.
What a long halflife does is increase the time until that steady state is reached. If we operate a nuclear economy for a million years then a hell of a lot of that long lived isotope will have accumulated.
What a long halflife does is increase the time until that steady state is reached. If we operate a nuclear economy for a million years then a hell of a lot of that long lived isotope will have accumulated.