Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

Are you talking about the green goo?

Yeah, I mean, it's just hard not to think of Homer Simpson when you're talking about nuclear power at all.

Yeah, like, you know, that little rod flies right into his hood.

That's right.

Yeah?

Oh, wow.

There you go.

Yeah, it's not a sandwich you want.

Unless you cut the crust off.

Yeah, that's right.

And this is clearly the most dangerous kind of nuclear waste.

We're going to go over several different kinds of nuclear waste, but this is the stuff that you really, really got to take care of.

I mean, you got to take care of all of it, of course, but this is stuff that's super dangerous.

And these pellets are these little...

Cylinders about the size, I guess it depends on your thumb, but, you know, like midway up your thumb, half a thumb.

Yeah, not the thumb stump.

Like the actual thumb print section of your thumb.

And, you know, disposing of this stuff is sort of the highest level of concern because we have to do it safely, right?

We don't there's not a place in the world that has a permanent solution for this, even though Finland is pretty close to, you know, I'm going to put air scare quotes, as you call them, around a permanent solution, because who knows what permanent means, you know, in 50,000 years.

And we were going to build one of these in 2010, and we'll talk about why that didn't happen.