ABSTRACT
It is easy for the anti-nuclear activist to make up stories about the dangers of the waste products of the nuclear industry, because if one wishes to do so it is easy to make up stories about the dangers of any aspect of technology. There is an atavistic superstition, however, which helps the anti-nuclear activists to spread the notion that something darkly horrible will happen if nuclear waste is buried underground. It is also easy to bring oneself to believe that, however carefully the storage site were chosen, sooner or later water would come into contact with the cylinders of nuclear waste. The metal casings of the cylinders would gradually corrode and be eventually penetrated by the water, which would proceed to leach the vitreous radioactive waste. The nuclear-waste problem, if not exactly trivial, is plainly not a cause for serious concern.
