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Given you're a fan of nuclear power which creates waste that's dangerously radioactive for 10,000 years, it's interesting you see discarded Li-ion batteries & solar panels as the real boogeymen.

I'm not really a fan, I'm just not in fear of it, in fact most of our modern life is indebted to it. You wouldn't have a mobile, cancer treatments, modern TVs, computers or fire detectors without it.

How do the anti-nuclear brigade explain the already hugely diminished radioactive background levels around Chernobyl or Fugkushima? 10,000 years is really an emotive claim, because even in a natural disaster like a Tsunami it's really just the hot zone that becomes the issue. The half life of most reactive debris has a half-life measured in 10s or dozens of years, and the bulk of it never leaves the immediate vicinity with the radiation diminishing by the inverse square law, so twice as far away 1/4 the danger, 10 times further away 100 times less danger.

The paranoia about nuclear is not much short of the same fear applied to 5G, vaccines or fluoride in your drinking water.