Temperatures don't affect radioactivity at all. This has been tested many times and at extreme temperatures.
Thermodynamics says,Temperature is the average vibrational kinetic energy of the molecules of some object. This affects whole atoms or molecules which vibrate with respect to each other.
Radioactive decay is caused by imbalances in the nuclear and electroweak forces inside the nucleus of an atom. The external conditions of the atom or molecule have no effect on this.Radioactive decay happens when an unstable atomic nucleus spontaneously changes to a lower-energy state and spits out a bit of radiation
There is no physical or chemical way of reducing the radioactivity of something accelerating its decay.
In a similar way pressure has no effect on radioactivity
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