Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

How many Olympic pools deep is it?

So back to the waste isolation pilot plant in New Mexico.

Here they bury this transuranic.

Is that how you said it?

Yeah.

OK.

Inside a salt layer that's a couple of thousand feet below the surface.

And salt doesn't have any properties.

maybe a little bit, but basically no groundwater flow.

And water's your enemy as far as a corrosive agent with all this stuff.

But the salt is going to form a seal just sort of like that clay did around those canisters.

And that's what we do with that stuff.

And I mentioned decommissioning entire nuclear power plants and reactors.

That's something that you have to do because, like I said, these things, you can't just keep tightening the bolts on these and expect it to keep running.

I think, in fact, in the United States, 60 years is like the maximum limit before they say, shut this thing down.

Yeah.

And there's that water in the pools.

Like, let's say you finally get all of them out of the pool and in dry cask.

Then you got a big pool of, I imagine, very soothing nuclear water that was used as a coolant.

And you got to do something with that and what we do with it.