What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?
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Are you talking about the green goo? Yeah, I mean, it's just hard not to think of Homer Simpson when you're talking about nuclear power at all.
Yeah, and nuclear waste in particular, right?
Yeah, like, you know, that little rod flies right into his hood.
Right. This inanimate carbon rod is the employee of the year, I think.
That's right.
So, yeah, it turns out that nuclear waste doesn't really look like that. It certainly doesn't glow green. Probably the closest you could get to what The Simpsons depict, and not just The Simpsons, I think, the classic movie Men at Work featuring brothers Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Never saw it. It's good. As far as 80s comedies go, it's pretty good.
Yeah?
All right. And they play a lot of 2 Live Crew, too.
Oh, wow. There you go.
Because I think it takes place in Miami. I'm not sure. But the closest you can get to that, from what I can tell, is sludge. Toxic nuclear sludge that is described as having kind of a peanut buttery consistency, which is... Gross and dangerous, you know?
Yeah, it's not a sandwich you want. Unless you cut the crust off.
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.
Yeah, that's right. And this is clearly the most dangerous kind of nuclear waste. We're going to go over several different kinds of nuclear waste, but this is the stuff that you really, really got to take care of. I mean, you got to take care of all of it, of course, but this is stuff that's super dangerous.
Right.
And these pellets are these little... Cylinders about the size, I guess it depends on your thumb, but, you know, like midway up your thumb, half a thumb.
Okay, half thumb. Anything but metric.
Yeah, not the thumb stump. Like the actual thumb print section of your thumb.
The thumb sprout. Yeah, the thumb sprout, exactly.
And, you know, disposing of this stuff is sort of the highest level of concern because we have to do it safely, right?
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