Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the NRC, is looking at applications for a couple of larger storage sites here in the U.S.

for those dry casts, one in New Mexico and one in Texas.

These are called consolidated interim storage sites, again, because it's just, you know, temporary.

And I think all over the world, about 70% of the fuel that's used up is in pools.

About 30% is in these dry casks.

And, you know, these things supposedly are built to withstand natural disasters and things like that.

But, like you said, like they're stored either on or near the surface.

It's not like they're buried in bedrock, which we'll see is maybe a more permanent solution.

And, in fact, that's the one that they're –

that the U.S.

was working on inside the Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and it had NRC and EPA approval, but Nevada said, nope, we don't want that here.

Obama canceled it in 2010, and so far we don't have a new sort of, again, scare quote, permanent solution here in the U.S.,

Maybe we should go, go, go on a break.

Yeah.

And I promised talk of Finland earlier, and maybe we'll pick up with that right after this.

All right, so we mentioned Finland early on as being kind of the only place in the world now that is close to being done with a, again, scare quote, permanent solution.

And the reason we keep saying scare quotes is because, you know, you sent me some information that was like, hey, nobody knows what's going to happen in thousands and thousands of years.

So you can't really call it permanent when there's climate change and potential like asteroid impacts and things like that.

Like, we just don't know what's coming our way.

So you can't really say it's permanent.