why burying nuclear wastes deep inside earth's crust had an stiff opose from public?

If the nuclear waste buried like normal wastes near the ground, it is being placed in the zone, where groundwater circulates. If anything leaked out into the groundwater from the repository it could be disastrous. Nuclear waste management programme suggesting proper burial method to dispose nuclear wastes.

Many countries started burying nuclear wastes deep inside the earth’s crust. It will take many years to decay.  Many parts of the Earth's crust are more radioactive than the low-level waste. The nuclear waste material buried in earth’s crust never harms anyone or anything.