Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

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.

But since the 1940s, we've had a lot of different kinds of nuclear waste to dispose of, and we've been getting rid of it and storing it in a few different ways since then.

But there's potentially a brighter future ahead with some pretty ingenious ideas.

In a couple of years.

I hope so.

That's right.

And by the way, if people think I do have Chuck Stradama's powers of the future, please do not get concerned that I foretold my death in two years.

It's okay.

Okay.

I could just hear someone out there being like, oh, no, no, no.

Chuck said he's going to die in two years.

He shan't even say things like that, lest we forget Jared and Hugh Jackman.