Some nuclear waste is stored about 600 meters below the desert in New Mexico inside caverns dug

out of an ancient bed of rock salt. The land above

the storage site is owned by the federal

government. Why do you think this location was

chosen?

Adeuteron, 21h, is the nucleus of a hydrogen isotope and consists of one proton and one neutron. the plasma of deuterons in a nuclear fusion reactor must be heated to about 3.02×108 k . what is the rms speed of the deuterons? express your answer using two significant figures.