In order to estimate the safety of final storage for nuclear wastes, it is important to know the half-lives of the radioactive elements of the nuclear waste as accurately as possible. The half-life indicates the period of time in which the amount of a radioactive element decreases by half and breaks down into other atoms. This period of time can, depending on the composition of the nuclear waste, amount to decades or even millions of years.
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