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How dangerous is nuclear waste? What are we doing with it? What should we do with it? How long do I have to wait until I can cuddle with it and watch a movie together? Grab your geiger counter and jump into this cinematic journey to answer all the questions about with the world's most mysterious byproduct.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Hanging out with nuclear waste
01:50 What is the high-level waste?
02:50 E=MC2
03:17 How deadly is used fuel when it comes out of the reactor?
04:02 Danger vs Risk: Why the waste has never killed anyone
06:47 The engineering of keeping us safe
08:19 How much waste is there?
09:34 Nuclear waste vs. waste of other electricity sources
11:37 How long is the waste dangerous for?
14:53 How long ’til you can safely cuddle with nuclear waste and watch a film?
17:24 Moving the waste from the plant to the burial site (DGR)
18:23 A visit to the giant waste hole (DGR)
21:49 Nuclear waste vs other toxic wastes
22:47 Is it waste or is it fuel?
24:58 An argument for NOT burying it.
26:24 You can fear it if you like, but you can’t say ‘there is no plan’
27:02 The Dutch Alternative
28:36 Conclusion + Credits
SHOW NOTES
OPG Nuclear Waste (Byproducts) Page
www.opg.com/powering-ontario/...
Dry Casks Weight and Other Info
nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/waste/...
Computing Energy Density of a Fuel Pellet
whatisnuclear.com/energy-dens...
0.1% mass lost of U-235 in Fission (E=mc2 in action)
chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelv...
Some Physics on the Safety of Nuclear Waste
jackdevanney.substack.com/p/t...
How Much Waste Is There?
whatisnuclear.com/how-much-wa...
Kyle Hill: We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago
• We Solved Nuclear Wast...
John Oliver: Nuclear Waste
• Nuclear Waste: Last We...
Visualizing Carbon (explanation of image of CO2 in Manhattan)
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/...
How Much Nuclear Fuel is there on Earth?
whatisnuclear.com/nuclear-sus...
Dark Side of Solar Power (Waste Version)
hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side...
Methyl Mercury Risk to Human Health from Hydro Dams
seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/11...
BI - Why Wind Blades Are So Hard to Recycle
• Why Wind Turbine Blade...
Wyoming News Report on Wind Turbines arriving at Landfill
www.wyomingnewsnow.tv/2020/09...
Everything Is Radioactive
www.discovermagazine.com/heal...
Walking with Ligers
• Lions, Tigers and Lige...
Edward Teller’s Big Day at the American Petroleum Institute
thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/09/16...
Info on Plutonium
world-nuclear.org/information...
Shadow of a Giant by Clark Ferguson
arcticartssummit.ca/articles/...
TV Tropes - Can’t spell Failsafe without FAIL
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...
COVRA: Netherlands Waste Management Organization
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www.covra.nl/en/
What if you fell in a spent fuel pool?
• What If You Fell Into ...
MY WATER VELOCITY MATH (from 20m10s)
He says they get 10 to the minus 14 or minus 15 metres per second. We’ll start with minus 14 (13 zeroes).
0.00000000000001 m/s
X 60 s/min = 0.0000000000006 m/min
X 60 min/hour = 0.000000000036 m/hour
X 24 hours/day = 0.000000000864 m/day
X 365 days/year = 0.00000031536 m/year
1m divided by 0.00000031536 m/year = 3 170 979.1 years/m
Then to get the result for 10 to the negative 15 m/s, I slide the decimal one place to the right.
31 709 791 years/m
So somewhere around 3 to 30 million years for water to move a metre. In other words, a thousand times slower than completely still.
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