Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

Like those aren't the best idea because who knows what's going to happen long term here on planet Earth.

But they're, you know, extracting the most highly radioactive parts of this waste from everything else.

Seems like that's headed toward like a pretty good solution.

So they don't know quite what to do with it afterward.

But one way of doing it

is something called transmutation, right?

I love this thought process.

Another one that holds a lot of promise is actually glass and ceramics.

Glass and ceramics can both trap those radionuclides that you were talking about.

And for like a long period of time.

And, you know, the idea is that you store this stuff in these like glass logs or ceramic logs, basically.

Glass doesn't degrade very easily, forms a very tight bond that's kind of like a force field that says nothing's getting in or getting out.

It's a process called vitrification, but it's not just regular old glass.

It's like, you know, sort of heavy duty nuclear containing glass.

Yeah, yeah.

I thought that was clear.

But yeah, thanks for clearing that up.

Yeah, ceramics work just as good.

We can also recycle the fissile material.

We're trying to, you know, the goal there is to recover uranium and plutonium, the main materials, main fissile materials.