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>It's better to just bury it, as safely as possible, and then remove all outside traces of existence.

Seems quite rude to leave unmarked radioactive waste lying around where future people might stumble over it.

I side with curtis here[0]. If you burry this stuff deep enough in sealed containers, using best tech available, then (barring any massive geological changes) the only way for someone to stumble over it is if they have technological capabilities comparable to ours.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8091034

Yes and as a person in a culture with technology comparable to ours it seems like, miners for instance would be pretty ticked off if they were falling into old pits of unmarked radioactive waste all the time.

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