Joshua (Josh) Clark

You melt the glass making minerals and the waste together and it forms the glass log together.

So like you're actually trapping the radioactive particles in glass, not inside glass, as part of glass.

It's really genius.

You're welcome.

And you can also do the same thing with ceramics too, apparently.

For sure.

And then hopefully doing something with it, like turning it back into pellets.

Like I saw to make a mixed uranium plutonium oxide MOX fuel, you can use eight old pellets to create one new one.

So it actually is pretty efficient.

And you can keep doing that over and over again until essentially you just don't have enough left to actually produce any energy.

And one of the other points that I saw, Chuck, is that

Even if we can't figure out how to reuse the fuel that we've isolated and extracted from the spent nuclear fuel waste, just being able to do that would reduce it by so much that it would take a huge amount of our problem for figuring out what to do with the waste off of the table.

So if that stuff is 1% of all nuclear waste and the United States has 90,000 tons of it,

That would drop it down to just 900 tons of really problematic stuff that we had to figure out how to get rid of, not 90,000.

So there's, I mean, aside from that security risk thing, there's really no reason not to process nuclear waste to get the high energy stuff out of there for one reason or another.

I think that's it, man.

That's right, Chuck.

And since Chuck talked about recycling uranium pellets, obviously it's time for Listener Mail.

Yeah, let's do it, man.

Because that is definitely, as far as I'm concerned, an overlooked issue in the justice system for sure.