WHY NOT THROW NUCLEAR WASTE INTO A VOLCANO?

WHY NOT THROW NUCLEAR WASTE INTO A VOLCANO?

The question, why not throw nuclear waste into a volcano, has been answered.

Unfortunately, the lava of the volcanoes isn´t hot enough to reach the melting point of some materials.

Lava in the hottest volcanoes tops out at around 2,400 ºF, so, materials such as zirconium, which has the melting point at 3,371º, don´t melt, and the problem begins there, waste would be in the lava until the volcano erupts.

A regular lava flow is hazardous, but the lava pouring out of a volcano with the nuclear waste would be extremely radioactive. Eventually it would harden, turning that mountain´s slapes into a nuclear wasteland for decades to come. And the danger would extend much farther. During a big eruption, ash and gas can shoot six miles into the air and afterwards, circle the globe several times, and with that we´d all be in serious trouble.

With the radiation of the ashes in the air, it would produce more air pollution and as a consequence of that, the percentage of illnesses like lung cancer would increase, causing a higher number of deaths.