Andrew Revkin
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I can send you a fun video of bubbles in the cooling pool with the rods.
Progressively, they demonstrated how to handle waste.
In the United States now, the waste is because we haven't figured out how to move it across state lines.
It's glassified.
It's put into kind of containers that sit there at the plant.
We just simply don't have a long-term solution.
The Nevada politicians were successful in saying, not here, not Yucca Mountain.
But my wife, who I've been married to, well, I met 30 years ago, and she lives with me.
She's an environmental educator.
She was very happy when Cuomo shut it down, said we're going to shut it down three or four years ago, which just happened a year.
It actually is shut down now.
It's being mothballed.
And I was like, that sucks.
Yeah, and we still love each other.
Oh, yeah.
You know, and you bring in the weapons proliferation issues.
But it's a safety thing.
It's a generational thing.
I think young people are different, I hope.
These small modular reactor designs, several of which there's a couple of PhDs from MIT who did transatomic power.