is radioactive waste dangerous
Radioactive waste is hazardous to most forms of life and the environment, and is regulated by government agencies in order to protect human health and the environment.he radioactivity of all nuclear waste diminishes with time. All radionuclides contained in the waste have a half-life âthe time it takes for half of the atoms to decay into another nuclide âand eventually all radioactive waste decays into non-radioactive elements (i.e., stable nuclides).