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Can radioactive waste be dumped into volcanoes?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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This sounds a very bad idea, volcanoes erupt sometimes and would spew it out again. Even volcanoes that have not erupted for many years may do within the lifetime of the nuclear activity of the waste

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