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Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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.,

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

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

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Right.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

But they're calling it permanent, even so.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

This one is called Oncolo, which means cavity or pit.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

And it's the first on planet Earth geologic repository where supposedly, you know, they say that you can store this stuff, you know, close to 1500 feet down under the earth in the bedrock.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

And that stuff's been there for millions of years.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

So this stuff should be pretty good down there.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

I did not get the memo that we have abandoned Big Macs in favor of, I guess, Olympic pools?

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

What happened?

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Olympic pool means nothing to me.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Oh, okay.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

You know what means something to me?