Isabelle Boemeke

Not that we bury everything and secure with armed guards.

But at least in thinking about all the possible things that can happen 100 years from now, 1,000 years from now.

Because the people who think about long-term nuclear waste disposal,

They're thinking about every single possibility, including what would happen if human civilization loses the ability to communicate in English and collapses.

And how do we warn this future humans that this is nuclear waste?

That's what people worry about, literally.

When people say that, when people say we don't know what to do with nuclear waste, that's what they're saying.

They're saying, we don't know what's going to happen a thousand years from now.

And, you know, because of stuff like Oklo, which is that natural nuclear reactor that I talked about in Gabon, Africa.

We actually learned a lot about how nuclear waste moves.

They thought it was going to be spread over a much larger area, and it just didn't move that much.

And mind you that there were no engineer barriers.

Just literally a rock.

So spent fuel, I always focus on spent fuel because there are three different types of waste.

There's what's called low radioactive waste.

So this is stuff like the gloves that somebody who worked at a nuclear power plant created.

But that stuff is not going to be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.

It's just slightly radioactive waste.

Exactly.

So if you were to use energy for your entire life's needs, you would leave behind a soda can worth...