Climate change presents problems much more immediate and threatening than Cold War-era nuclear waste, Roy said.
“Probably going to have greater issues from climate change than the mobilization of radionuclides from the Cold War,” he said.
Its probably not disasterous, but I thought it was interesting as it raises the spectre of threats that are now appearing because we assumed we’d have a stable climate.
Typically people are taking about things like high level waste from power plants produced today and which are properly stored, not random 60s military waste left in pits.