User blog:Le Rottweiler/Radioactive Containers

I should clarify that I’ve never been inside of either a military installation or a scientific one. Perhaps they do indeed lay radioactive containers around, but why? What’s the reason? Are they too lazy or too time‐constrained to dump their waste in a landfill? Were some people moving them until they were interrupted? It seems very dangerous to leave explosive substances lying around, especially in places where somebody could facilely misfire their firearms.

Also, what’s in radioactive containers? Nuclear liquids? Do they use nuclear power to… power everything in their bases, maybe? Do the containers contain something utile?

Can somebody with a knowledge of nuclear materials shed any light on this?