Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant
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Yeah, that's great.
Put that down.
All right, so we should talk a little bit about other kinds of nuclear waste.
We were talking about the high-level waste, again, the most problematic, obviously.
That is just 3%, though, of total nuclear waste, but contributes 95% of the total radioactivity
More than 90% of nuclear waste is low-level.
And this is stuff that, you know, it might be like the protective clothes that you wore on site.
It's got a little radioactive dust on it, maybe some tools, maybe some disposable materials.
We have four locations in the U.S.
for disposing of this low-level stuff.
One in South Carolina, one in Washington state, one in Utah and one in Texas.
And this stuff is not nearly as problematic.
It decays to safe levels in about, again, who knows for sure, but about 20 to 30 years.
Well, I guess in that case, they can test it out at this point.
But that's treated almost like a landfill.
It's encased in concrete and covered with backfill.
Yeah, for sure.
And, you know, I'm glad you mentioned that real quick.
If we could just quickly say we have many, many, many hundreds up to how many episodes do we have?
A couple of thousand.