yeah, much better to just leave it in temporay storage for another decade or two until someone gets around to making a decision.
very believable. in days of yore the material was pretty hardcore stuff but in such small amounts as to make no odds. it was replaced by tritium, which its safe...
its stuff like the material used to create X-rays in your dentist, and the wrapper it came in. it has a nominal radioactivity so is deemed "nuclear waste", when you would obtain a larger dose of radiation standing on a granite outcrop in Cornwall.
as i understand it, the vast majority of "nuclear waste" isnt what you think it is, but the byproducts of various medical treatments and industrial processes that create material deemed radioactive, though less so than many areas are naturally. most the actual power plant stuff used to get...