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Joshua (Josh) Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

It's just a good book.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Again, it is like you could read it in a day, man.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

It's good, though.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

It's really interesting, too, because it's also a peek inside the current state of the AI industry, too.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Like, they're insiders.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

They know what's going on.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Yeah, I thought this was kind of genius.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

So essentially it's taking the extracted most radioactive parts of nuclear waste and tossing it into a particle accelerator and bombarding it with neutrons.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

And by doing so, you actually either change them, a neutron knocks some proton or something off of each of these atoms and converts it into something far less radioactive that might decay much more quickly.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Or they grab onto a neutron and they transform in that way and become something that might be much more stable that isn't radioactive at all.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

And so you're taking the really radioactive stuff and you're degrading it really quickly in a particle accelerator.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

And if you do it correctly...

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

I guess in principle, I think all of this is theoretical right now.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

You could actually produce energy while you're doing this.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

While you're getting rid of waste, you could be producing energy from the bombardment.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Bombardment.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?

And what's cool about it is the glass logs don't act as like container that you put waste in.