It is repeatedly claimed that the dumping of nuclear waste poses no threat to people living nearby  If this claim could be made with certainty, there would be no reason for not locating sites in areas of dense population
But the policy of dumping nuclear waste only in the more sparsely populated regions indicates, at the very least, some misgiving about safety on the part of those responsible for policy
Dumping of nuclear waste poses fewer economic and bureaucratic problems in sparsely populated than in densely populated areas.