Scott Nolan

Um, if you look at all those and you know, there's ways to potentially recycle some of that spent fuel and get more energy out of it, which is something people are talking about and thinking about now, but

That would just, you know, that's a longer conversation about what are the benefits of that.

Even if you don't do that and you just take these pellets that we've run through and put to the side and you put them all together in a pile,

All the nuclear spent fuel that the US has generated over the entire history of nuclear energy, if you put that all into an Olympic-sized swimming pool, it would be half-filled.

That's it?

That's it.

And it's metal.

People think of nuclear waste or spent fuel as...

you know, green ooze that's gonna trickle out and get in the water supply.

These are spent metal fuel ingots, again, that altogether are only half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

So this is not actually a big deal.

I think the waste issue has been a red herring.

I think it's been something that people bring up who don't want nuclear energy as, hey, we can't do nuclear energy until we solve the waste issue.

And good news, there is no waste issue.

So let's do nuclear energy.

That's my perspective.

Wow.

There's still things we could do about waste.

And should we store it all together in one place that's very inert and stable?

That's a discussion.