IF it's a salt, THEN it could easily be dissolved into whatever dissolves that salt ( like, you know, water ).

Scrap gets rained on, & salts washed away, going into the waterways..

I'm not saying that is what happened, this time, but I am saying that if they're using radioactive cesium salt, then they're creating extra risk, that wouldn't be the case if they were using a solid pellet of metal.

( this, obviously, applies to the spent fuel from any thorium-salt nuclear reactor, too: salts dissolve! Containment that is absolutely proof against that, for the entire required duration, .. may not be possible, for some long-duration isotopes, right? )

That it isn't an international-criminal-law offense to have such materials immediately taken to radioactive-waste-management, .. is .. morally-criminal.

Allowing it to just happen, when normal people aren't competent to either recognize, or deal-with, nuclear-radiation..

Typical rejection-of-accountability & rejection-of-responsibility, though, of authority, isn't it?

Contemptible.

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