Joshua (Josh) Clark

Far longer than that.

So all of that nuclear waste would be compressed to about a hockey puck.

So each of us in the United States have a hockey puck's worth of nuclear waste assigned to us.

And each of us has to figure out what to do with that hockey puck individually.

That's the new standard.

I don't know if that erased it for everybody, but all right.

It was a good attempt.

I mean, I don't like you saying it, but I'm nervously laughing instead.

But the upshot of all this is even though each of us just has a hockey puck's worth of nuclear waste, and it amounts to, I think, like 90,000 tons, which is eye-popping in the United States alone.

It's eye-popping, but it's actually not that much.

The problem is that it's very dangerous for a very long time afterward.

And you have to put it in very, very special places.

And those special places are essentially what we're going to kind of go over today.

No, the only one I can think of where we really talked about what happens in nuclear reactors was Fukushima.

I don't know, man.

I don't think so.

Right.

And they're kept underwater.

And the water does a couple of things.

One, it actually helps carry out the nuclear chain reaction that produces the heat that boils the water that produces the steam that turns the turbine that creates the electricity, right?