Isabelle Boemeke

That was the thing for me that I came into it thinking, is this really worth it?

Because we're creating this radioactive waste.

And it's true.

While there are no emissions, there are no carbon emissions, there are no particulate matter emissions, it is creating radioactive waste that lasts forever.

Hundreds of thousands of years, which in human...

lifespan is practically forever right so what do we do that yeah is it worth it and the way i slowly started understanding and seeing it differently was first of all again going back to the energy density and the quantity so because of the density of this fuel the amount of nuclear waste that we leave behind is actually very small so if i were to get my whole life's energy from nuclear

The amount of spent fuel, which is the waste that people talk about when they say this waste is radioactive forever.

The amount of that waste would fit inside of a soda can.

So we start with that.

It's a small amount.

But still, if you're powering the entire world with nuclear, it's still a significant amount.

Then I learned that actually 95% of the waste, the spent fuel that is now being taken care of around the world is recyclable.

95% of it is still uranium.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And exactly to your point, because there's different types of radiation.

And usually the stuff that is extremely dangerous and extremely radioactive also tends to go away fairly easily because it's shooting off so much of its energy.

Right.

It's like a fire burning really hard.

But the stuff that lasts for a really long time, that is way less radioactive.