Joshua (Josh) Clark

Mm-hmm.

But it also keeps it from going critical.

It also cools it.

So there's a constant flow of water in and out to maintain it at a fairly constant temperature, like 115 Fahrenheit or something like that.

And what's great about this is it's a self-contained process.

Unlike burning natural gas or coal, there's no emissions.

And everybody says, hooray, no emissions.

And then they say, yes, but we also have this nuclear waste as a result.

And everybody says, aw.

So that's where we stand.

Nuclear power has a lot of promise.

it's done well, especially with some of the advanced designs that are coming down the pike.

It's not a bad energy source.

It's just we haven't figured out what to do with the nuclear fuel.

And that's such an understatement, Chuck, that if you actually, once you start figuring out what we're doing with our spent nuclear fuel, it's almost embarrassing that this is what we're doing.

We're just basically...

stashing it over here until we can figure out what to do with it in the long term.

And we've been doing that for half a century.

Yes, very fortunately, they don't just take these fuel assemblies and toss them out back into an ever-growing pile.

They kind of do, but there's a little more to it.