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Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

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

A Big Mac.

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

Well, we can't pause for you to do that math.

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

All right.

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

Okay.

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

I was just a little worried.

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

I thought maybe an email got by me.

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

Oh, no.

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

And you went, how about Olympic pools?

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

So that site in Finland can store 3,000 canisters, which is enough to handle Finland.

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

They have five nuclear reactors.

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

And they said, hey, the whole operational life of these things, and we'll get to operational life of the whole reactor site because, you know, you can't make those go forever either.

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

You've got to shut those things down eventually.

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

But Finland can take care of all their business.

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

They said 120 years or so to fill that thing completely.

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

It'll last 100,000 years.

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

And after 100,000 years, the idea is that it's no longer radioactively dangerous.

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

Yeah, I wonder if they just said, I don't know, 100,000 years sounds like a long time.

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

Just put that down.

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

You know what I bet they do is they say, how many years in the future do you think people no longer care about their future family line?

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

That's like 100,000 years?