Why is radioactive waste so hard to get rid of?

it radioactive you just can't flush it down the toilet

The half-life for many isotopes is extremely long.

There is probably a single simple and basic answer regarding the difficulty of disposing of nuclear waste. It is that many of these materials remain dangerously radioactive for hundreds and even thousands of years that makes them difficult to dispose of. They must be stored safely for greatly extended periods, and this is costly and tedious. ...

Radioactive waste is an inevitable consequence of nuclear fission reactors, but it is contained in the used fuel assemblies and these can be kept in a safe place so that the waste will not enter the environment ...

The function of mitochondria is to provide energy for the cells to continue doing their function so it cannot get rid of waste ...

i need this for science so someone answer this please.

Nuclear wastes are sometimes said to be a problem too difficult to solve because the waste stays radioactive for so long. The only thing that gets rid of nuclear waste is time. ...

To get rid of waste products in their bodies

The problem is that it has radioactive waste and that's dangerous, and it has to be buried so it doesn't affect the environment. ...

They take a day or two to digest the food. Then it turns into unwanted waste and they body must get rid of it. So the turtle simply excretes the waste through the rectum and moves on. ...

You're not supposed to get rid of them...

Our bodies can't use all the stuff that we eat, so the leftovers has to be gotten rid off. because they cannot have waste in their bodies its not healthy.they have to get rid of the waste. ...

So people don't get high

now if you take laxative, it loosens your body waste so its not so hard for the intestine to push waste out. ...

Excreting is basically getting rid of waste. So when you go to toilet you excrete that! ...

higher taxs are being given on these companies to find solutions

First the radioactive material and split the atom. So it is not a discovery is was hard work. ...

Radioactive waste depending on the dosage should be classified as 'pollution'. The waste word used really difines my reasoning. Its waste, unneeded products in our atmosphere, even if it is safe raioactive waste (in which i dont believe there is such a thing because further testing has not been done to work out future effects of radioactive waste on humans we may be slowly mutating) it is still unnatural 'waste' in our atmosphere. Definition of Pollution: the introduction of harmful substances or...

If there was no elimination of waste, people would only grow. Their rate of growth would be the same as how much food they eat. The body needs to get rid of something, so it gets rid of what it doesn't need. ...

Laxatives rid the body of all solid waste, so once all solid waste has been removed from the body, they will stop. ...

The little bands shrink your stomach. when you get rid of waste, your stomach empties, so ya. ...

because it has many toxics in it or bad waste so it needs to get rid of it! ...

Well crabs get rid of their bodily waste, so I would assume it has one.

Coral are very simple organisms, so they have no specialized structures for removing waste. Instead, inside the coral tissue are organisms called zooxanthellae that use the coral's waste for photosynthesis. ...

It is difficult because it is so hazardous to the environments that you put it in to get rid off. The effects are very dangerous to everything in that habitat and habitats around it, and the damage it causes is usually irreversible. But, this is if the hazardous material is disposed of in nature. It is hard to store in a business environment, (and by this I mean anywhere, i.e without a covering or in a trash bin), because it can be...