What property of half-lives makes radioactive material so problematic?

A. There is no known way to shorten a half-life.
B. Radioactivity is limited by the natural decay time to stable isotopes.
C. There is no known way to measure half-lives with any accuracy.
D. All half-lives are long.
E. both A and B


Answer: E

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