What are the methods of treatment & disposal of radioactive wastes ?

A. Evaporation & chemical precipitation
B. Biological methods & adsorption in ion exchange materials
C. Fixing into a solid mass with cement and sinking deep in the sea
D. All A., B. & C.

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