Joshua (Josh) Clark

like a lot of energy left in it.

It's just like you said, not enough energy to power an old school nuclear reactor.

Yeah.

So one solution is to develop more advanced reactors that can use those same things as fuel.

They're just much more sensitive.

Another thing is to take those and recycle them, like extract the usable stuff out of it, form new pellets, and just start the cycle again.

And you're doing a couple of cool things here.

One, you're taking out the most dangerous part of the radioactive nuclear waste and

and leaving behind far less dangerous waste that you still have to figure out what to do with, but it's not nearly as bad as the stuff that you took out of it.

And then you're also reusing power that otherwise, under the current plans of just bury it and forget it, you're burying all of that energy.

There's so much energy.

There's a startup called Oklo, and they...

They estimate that the unused spent fuel that we're talking about just burying thousands of feet under the ground could power the United States, the entire United States, for the next 150 years just with the spent nuclear fuel we have right now.

And the idea is to just bury it and forget about it.

And it's so stupid.

that it actually could be considered a lucky break that Yucca Mountain didn't work out back in 2010.

And it's in limbo because it bought time for people to come up with other ideas rather than just bury the stuff that's just such a total waste.

And the same fear, except even worse, is associated with extracting plutonium from spent nuclear fuel to use that because that is the core of a nuclear weapon.

And that's the kind of thing that a foreign country that doesn't have a nuclear program but really wants one has the resources to steal from some startup that is refining and extracting it in their facility in Tennessee.

Exactly.