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Question
What precautions must be taken for the safe disposal of nuclear waste?
Solution
The nuclear waste obtained from laboratories, hospitals, scientific establishments or power plants must be first kept in thick casks and then they should buried in the specially designed deep underground stores. The stores should be make quite far from the populated area and the casks should also be buried and scaled in useless mines after storing if.
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