Scott Tinker
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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six seven eight hundred nine hundred eleven hundred degrees to make some of these things that modern societies run on so nuclear fusion has the potential if you arc it to make that much heat so you literally transition away from carbon
That's the ultimate decarbonization transition is to those very dense, always on sources of heat, which is a nuclear fission or fusion reactions.
And it's high tech.
What about nuclear waste, Scott?
yeah so this doesn't have waste diffusion it's it's steam um fission does have two sorts of ways does the big towers you see these conical towers that's just steam that's just the steam off the boiling water that's not co2 or any other particulate emissions like from a coal plant the waste out of fission
is called fission products.
They're various forms of radioactive things.
About 95% of the energy is used in about 5% of these fission products.
little piece of plutonium but the rest of them you have to manage you have to what they typically do is they they solicify those what does that mean uh they blend them with silica okay so they become a molecule that's locked up
still very hot and radioactive, and then they put it in canisters.
And those canisters are then put into dry casks, which you see mostly on the surface in the US, or they're put into 30, 40 foot thick concrete slabs today in France.
In our first film, we take you inside the nuclear reactor and show you the dry casks going down into the concrete slabs where they're hot and radioactive and they're stored forever.
And now they're looking at geologic solutions, so putting them down in the earth in the shale and other kinds of rocks and holding them there forever.
I say forever.
They're radioactive for 20,000, 30,000 years.
They're not hot for that long.
They're hot for a couple hundred years before they wouldn't melt themselves and they'd be safe.
So I'm not making light of that.
You've got to manage that waste.
But the amount of waste...
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