Decades before clickbait was a thing, antinuclear rhetoric was on its way to become the ultimate clickbait. Just throw the words nuclear, cancer, waste or radiation into a title and you’re bound to get thousands of hits.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, has been inundated with this stuff for a long time. But the intensity seems to be growing, even eight years after the nuclear power plant shut down. The recent focus has been on the spent nuclear fuel, better referred to as slightly used nuclear fuel.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/06/07/nuclear-waste-is-the-ultimate-clickbait--just-ask-songs/#2c9a5ba72288

This fuel has been out of the reactor for between 8 and 27 years. The really hot stuff decays away before 5 years while the spent fuel is still in pools of water. The half-life of the remaining hot stuff, Cs-137 and Sr-90, is only 30 years, so these are a lot cooler than when they were in the reactor. After 200 years, the fuel isn’t very radioactive at all since all the hot gamma-emitters are gone.

GO AHEAD AND EAT SOME RADIOACTIVE WASTE! MOTHERF*CKER...  HOW CAN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING THAT EVERY DAY YOU MAKE THE WORLD A WORSE PLACE TO LIVE??? 

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