Joshua (Josh) Clark
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It's just a good book.
Again, it is like you could read it in a day, man.
It's good, though.
It's really interesting, too, because it's also a peek inside the current state of the AI industry, too.
Like, they're insiders.
They know what's going on.
Yeah, I thought this was kind of genius.
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.
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.
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.
And so you're taking the really radioactive stuff and you're degrading it really quickly in a particle accelerator.
And if you do it correctly...
I guess in principle, I think all of this is theoretical right now.
You could actually produce energy while you're doing this.
While you're getting rid of waste, you could be producing energy from the bombardment.
Bombardment.
And what's cool about it is the glass logs don't act as like container that you put waste in.