Joshua (Josh) Clark
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Gross and dangerous, you know?
So for the most part, though, nuclear waste is solid.
It's like pellets of solid, essentially metal material made up of a bunch of different elements and metals and all sorts of crud pressed together to form essentially a uranium fuel is what it starts out as.
But after it undergoes nuclear fission for five or six years, it says, I'm spent.
Get me out of here.
And a new fuel assembly is brought in.
Okay, half thumb.
Anything but metric.
The thumb sprout.
Yeah, the thumb sprout, exactly.
Yeah, fingers crossed, because right now we're going down the road that was proposed a long time ago, and it's kind of a dumb, unnecessary road.
And hopefully smarter heads will prevail.
But yeah, we'll get into that later.
But one thing I thought was fascinating is that there is way less nuclear waste than you would think.
I think something like if you took all of the nuclear power that you used, you, Chuck, used for your entire lifetime, the moment of birth.
The moment you die.
All of it now.