The Way Nuclear Waste Can Be Used Has Shocked the World

[@BlackJacx1]

Thanks for the video! 23:00 I've seen trench 94 in person with my father who worked at "The Evaporator," the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, and the trench is HUGE. The plan is to close the trench with the Sub cross sections serving as the containment vessels for the nuclear reactor, fuel and all, because it's considered a higher level of containment that is currently required and is estimated to be secure in the dry climate of eastern Washington indefinitely. "The Evaporator" is an interesting bit of technology, It's the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, and my dad described it as being a giant tea kettle that "you never want to boil" when he let me run the simulator they have on site. It takes low density liquid nuclear waste and condenses it for long term storage, by removing the water into a huge water vessel that is then filtered and cleaned, with the waste product being moved back into a secure holding tank, while the cleaned and tested water(almost literally only H20) is released back into the Columbia River(where huge sturgeon like to swim in the relatively warm water, since the Columbia is quite cold). At the same site they have a mothballed Plutonium refinement plant adjacent to the Evaporator, a lake that my father said actually glows green at night from the glass ingots that contain old fissile material from a much earlier containment programs. It was super interesting to visit the site in person, and see the work that is done to contain and reclaim waste from the nuclear escalation era.

[@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj]

Great 😃😃👍👍 video 😊😊 from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

[@russellcollins4291]

Thank you for being the first American in some time that I've heard pronounce the word 'nuclear' correctly. 😂

[@George-nc4yc]

Great comment- where the hell did Nookquelure come from? Reelater drives me crazy too, especially when realtors pronounce it that way!

[@screddot7074]

I live in Barnwell, SC. Projected to be the fastest growing town in the USA until Jimmy Carter denied a license for the reprocessing plant being built. They now use it as a training area for terrorist attacks on other nuclear facilities. We are also home to the Savannah River Site. A government owned facility of 300 square miles that has been in operation since the early 1950's. We can overcome any technical problem except politics.

[@AngelCook-s8u]

Love these videos this is why I keep watching your channel because I’m fully invested in going to school under my disability to study nuclear engineering

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

Around the 16:00 mark, you called reactors that turn waste into fuel 'fast reactors.' In itself, that is inaccurate. The correct term is 'breeder reactor' because it breeds fissile material from non-fissile material. There are essentially two types: slow and fast breeders. A fast breeder produces substantially more fuel than the reactor can use, so the excess has to be shipped off to other reactors. However, most commonly the fuel produced is plutonium, usually high-grade (i.e. concentration) which is relatively easy to turn into a nuclear explosive. (Plutonium can have uncontrolled chain reactions just by putting enough of it together; with uranium-235, you have to compress the nuclei closer than they would normally exist, which requires precisely placed conventional explosives to set it off into a nuclear explosion). Shipping explosive-grade plutonium all over the country was deemed to much of a risk of hijacking, etc. However, slow breeders produce only as much fuel as they use. They generally require some on-site processing it to get rid of pollutants that would interfere with the reactions, but still, not fissile materials leave the reactor site, and in fact, the concentrations are insufficient for a nuclear explosion. There are many proposed designs, at varying levels of detail. The first of anything is generally expensive, but once a safe reliable design is chosen and the first built, the following versions should not be prohibitively expensive.

[@jeeppayton]

So knowledgable, yet full of wishful thinking. There's only a couple solutions to safely storing spent fuel. Do you know that. No! One is to dig down in the earth 18,000ft, the other is rocket launch into sun. Both extremely expensive. Tesla theorized and later experiments confirm, fissile material loses all radioactivity at depths greater than 17,000 ft. in the earth. All other solutions are eventually unsafe. Are you a lib? What's the point of recycling if the national debt has to increase by 2x! Just dispose it! Or, you pay for it if that's what you want. That's real wishful thinking

[@ChristophersMum]

Like he said...'' he's not a scientist...and the system is way complicated ''...give him some slack...at least he has given the difficulty in the process an airing

[@howdarei6761]

china made one not so long ago

[@johnslugger]

*There are many type of BREEDER reactors including LFTR types. Bury it fine but we should be ready to dig it all back up when we develop the TECH to extract the remaining energy.*

[@jeeppayton]

Nikola Tesla theorized all radiation from nuclear material would be nullified if below earth surface 17,500ft. Later experiments have confirmed it as fact. There is a safe solution to disposal but not on the surface of earth or even under the surface until getting to 17,500 foot. Do you know why it has no radiation at that depth?

[@seannabaine5478]

Its so stupid that we are storing all the waste, instead of using it. It is all still completely useful material.

[@BlackJacx1]

it could also be a useful resource if for some reason it becomes unavailable due to shortages or long term conflicts...

[@jmatos316]

It’s always stupid… until someone does the “unthinkable” and año the vast swath of earth become uninhabitable for a century.

[@wakeUPdummies]

Tell Haliburton

[@joshuasmith-holley72]

did you watch the whole video?

[@jmatos316]

@ yeah actually… that’s why I was commenting on what seannabaine said.

[@RuslanKovtun]

Russia is building full cycle facility that works on fast neutrons. It can burn minor actinides and use it as reactor fuel. This means all nuclear waste is a fuel for this plant.

[@ricktotty2283]

The real reason they don’t use fast reactors is it cuts into the profits of making fuel rods. You need watch Sabin Hossenfelder video on how much nuclear waste there really is. She clears up how much and how it’s stored. There are new nuclear waste sites under construction and she tells you where they are. The sites not only store but recycle nuclear waste.

[@joeysplats3209]

But don't build one on the shore next to a major fault line.

[@lesliefish4753]

This is a great argument for developing Thorium nuclear plants.

[@LocomotiveThought]

Depleted Uranium is my favorite. It has so many different applications due to it being minimally radioactive & incredibly dense.

[@gregkelmis2435]

I don’t know if you’re gonna get to it, but the French have spent fuel rod reactors instead of running for five years you feel them up and they were on for about 40 years.

[@vincebaker2754]

Why didn't you cover India's nuclear power plant. You know, the one that will use thorium when it's done being built. The main reason the US doesn't use thorium is because you can't make bombs from the waste. Making bombs are apparently more important than people's safety.

[@corvid1968]

Well screw the u.s!

[@johnlord8337]

Technically, we do. Uranium depleted ammo in tanks and other artillery shells, maybe even with other naval ships. Especially ATACMs multiple ammo barrage missiles.

[@SeedlingNL]

The problem with DU shells is that the uranium dust it creates is very troublesome.. especially when it ends up in a town's water supply, like in Iraq...

[@johnlord8337]

@@SeedlingNL No one said it was healthy, but it is recycling nuclear waste instead of stockpiling it.

[@jesses1589]

@@SeedlingNL Indeed, you can find a documentary on the effects of DU rounds. It causes birth defects similar to what was seen after Chernobyl and around Russian nuclear testing sites. America is at fault too with the testing that was done on Bikini atoll and the natives that lived on islands nearby.

[@man_at_the_end_of_time]

​@@SeedlingNLAs a certain radiochemist said "You want to remember uranium is not only radioactive but also is a heavy metal with a toxicology all its own." And from those in the threads of conversation his name would be recognized.

[@arkrainflood]

@@SeedlingNL a single uranium particle generated from the collision of the DU anti tank rod hitting the armor is thought to eventually cause cancer in 20 years. check out the documentary "Beyond Treason"

[@SuperAgentman007]

They gotta keep that fuel cool so it doesn’t overheat, and it takes years for that to happen

[@patrickrussell1888]

Creating climate change issues?

[@barry99705]

@@patrickrussell1888 it's not that much heat.

[@richardchiriboga4424]

Super informative video!!! Thank you!!!

[@antonvesely6606]

A) REPROCESSING Reprocess spent fuel with fast breeder reactors, as France has been doing for decades. B) THREAT SECURITY Store spent or unspent fissile material with military three-level fenced zones. Innermost double-fence zone has guards with dogs within sight of each other. C) WE USE both A) and B) to maximize military nuclear safety. It costs more, but we can't afford anything less for civilian reactors.

[@RonGetty-io6yc]

Good to know thank you.

[@PolarBear_Gaming_More]

You’re beating a dead horse with your anonymity

[@miloszkraszewski3533]

Thank you for the information. As always like earned.

[@troyallen8223]

Storing is always temporary as natural erosion will eventually occur and lead to leakage.

[@pastorjerrykliner3162]

You know, back in the day, the old "Triple Expansion" steam engines used the "spent" steam pressure... The first set of cylinders were the smallest, and used "high pressure" steam right out of the boiler. The second set was a middle sized set of pistons, but then the cooling steam was sent to a third set of "large" pistons that were "low pressure" before the steam was recondensed and sent back to the boiler. My point is this: Spent fuel still is hot (thermally hot). It needs to be kept in a "cooling pool", but that decay heat is largely wasted. But what if we found ways to harness that heat, which right now is just wasted? Kind of like how the old "triple expansion" steam engines continued to use the "low pressure" steam that was almost spent. Yeah, you're not getting the same power that spins the high-pressure turbines, but there's so much decay heat that is just wasted...

[@amonpanganaimhlanga3095]

you are so good and at some point please bring back "Better Ask Steve". .

[@bmclean2083]

Excellent information! Thanks for another great video 🙏😀

[@Qusin111]

When fuel rods in a nuclear reactor are “spent,” or no longer usable, they are removed from the reactor core and replaced with fresh fuel rods. The spent fuel rods are still highly radioactive and continue to generate significant heat for decades.

[@Kawasaki1-m4l]

What happens to the radioactive cooling water after use?

[@drewkoenen8334]

They dilute it 😂😂😂 pour it into lakes and the they will lie to you about it

[@dcxvi7016]

Turns into bottled drink water.

[@DieselDSM69]

It can be filtered and cleaned but how many of them actually do that is questionable.

[@janes-e378]

Hope this recycling is better than the battery plant

[@asimjabbar8445]

Processing nuclear waste isn't expensive when you get plutonium nuclear warheads in the process. Much if the Nuclear powers utilize this process to increase their stockpile.

[@SeedlingNL]

That's how plutonium is created to begin with.. it doesn't occur in nature beyond trace quantities in uranium deposits, so it's always made in reactors. It's cheaper to go straight from uranium to plutonium, as you produce less fission products, but at the cost of energy production loss.

[@jesses1589]

Humanity already has enough warheads to destroy ourselves several times over.

[@man_at_the_end_of_time]

​@@jesses1589That negates your reason for concern as humanity is already there.

[@patrickrussell1888]

​@@SeedlingNL, makes me feel secure, considering all the sable rattlers in the world who don't seem too stable, including one just elected. 😢.

[@PaulSchauble-ug9ro]

Plutonium from power reactors is usable in bombs. The even weight isotopes like Pu 238 interfere with detonation. The reactors that make Pu for bombs are quite different from power reactors and would be inefficient at generating electricity.

[@rogue6584]

You keep saying Australia, Australia only has 1 nuclear power plant and it's not used for power it's used only for medicine

[@mitchellreece7086]

I was looking for this comment because why are we included in reprocessing fuel if very few countries do it when we don't produce power with nuclear...

[@runnergo1398]

Australia has around one third of the world's uranium resources, and is the world's third ranking producer, accounting for approximately 10 per cent of annual global production. You guys could literally have free energy if it weren't for all the fear-mongering behind nuclear power.

[@guuguuberra]

​@@runnergo1398 That's because of initially the people reliant on Coal and now the Renewable reliant industries.

[@curiouscatlabincgetsworrie7755]

Don't even think about trying Espresso !!! :D

[@jessstirland8338]

Its about MORE MONEY to replace the fuel every 5Yrs, which means ppl are paying 10x the amount it should really be.

[@Charge0Complete]

I knew I recognized that music...."Scary Interssting."

[@ChristopherPrisco]

Yeah, reactor sites.... I made(welder) waste containment units. The guys from said nuclear facilty replied when i asked what they do with the waste. They answered that they bury it in the mountains....

[@will.davlin]

Socks to bed = way better sleep deepness🟥😂😂🎉🎉🎉😢😢😢😢

[@kyruzen1082]

Hello

[@ehidkname9976]

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand -Doc Ock.

[@terrificm6569]

7 years to cool down? Dayummm

[@Cyan2003]

Wait so that means nuclear reactors is just a fancy/overengineered steam engines? I thought they use those uranium/plutonium to create battery cells to power an entire city.

[@OnlyKaerius]

Thorium reactors can also use most of this spent fuel instead. Much less waste products, and most of the waste useful in medical applications.

[@KPrent82]

Nuclear power is one of the cleanest types of energy that we have and there is no amount of solar panels and wind turbines that can replace it

[@JakeInvest]

wouldnt plutonium make more energy? i feel like if it makes a nuclear bomb, it could make a sh!t ton of energy for homes

[@barongerhardt]

It already does in the rods as they are being used, but the created p239 is also being used. As the u235 levels drop the stable levels p239 isn't enough to keep the rods in the desired range. Recycling can and does isolate the low levels p239 and u235 from old rods then mixed to make new MOX rods. The problem is the other stuff. Like recycling paper isn't that hard, but taking in account all sources the added plastics, inks, and other foreign material needing to be dealt with makes it much nicer to just start with a new tree.

[@danekappler2422]

As a Nuclear Health Physicist, I was annoyed by your previous video, as it was deceptive in its lack of complete information. You have thoroughly redeemed yourself. This was good.

[@ankitsarkar3158]

I wanna get into astrophysics phd . Can you guys may be suggest some good universities ? Also i have a masters degree in Astrophysics. So just the names of the college/university will help

[@SgtStarSlayer]

7:03 handle radioactive material with no protective gear 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CliftonBlackburn]

Spider-Man 2 featuring reactor just like Toca Mac and iter came out in the early 2000s

[@1982hargon]

Can you do a video on alternative nuclear energy like lftr or msr ( cold reactors, salt reactors )

[@doctoribanez]

Fun nuclear fact: Before gadaffi was executed, he stated that isreal killed jfk over the platonium they had stolen.

[@AlexKasper]

Humans still looking for fancier ways to boil water.

[@Salmoned]

Just need to find a way to transport the plasma to the sun and dip it in real fast. 😂

[@BlackJacx1]

With the Space X "Starship" it is probably more possible now than ever before honestly.

[@aperitifs]

Breaking a spent Fuel bundle down into Pellets , 4 pellets placed into a strong bar would give every house a Heat source that will last a century. ( Tho the energy companies would loose trilliions )

[@aperitifs]

With multiple Peltier chips attached to the Heat output, produces Very cold on the other side of the chip. Used for cooling .

[@richardcampbell8685]

It’s time that we just accept nuclear as the most logical energy source.

[@jesperb8626]

do a video on covid.

[@rileycomedor5364]

hello i love your vids!!!

[@wmgthilgen]

UNTIL there's a significant profit to be had. It ain't gonna happen.

[@malcolmmcguinness3709]

If the brains got together they should send it to the sun

[@dubsydubs5234]

14:40 what's the random graph referring to?

[@djangodredd763]

Title never disappoints❤

[@PumpkinAngry]

Anybody else noticed that he covers his self in a white substance look at his hand two different shades

[@DarronJames]

Nuclear Stuff is bad, but not bad for Godzilla ☢️☝️😌

[@VibeWithPou]

I wonder if liquid nitrogen could help speed up the process. Or build a facility in the north pole to help cool it down faster

[@aaronawoodard]

I think that they broke into Sweden because they don't have the policies and culture that is as accepting of 'lethal force' as we are here in America. If you don't understand property laws then you likely aren't from here so that is the risk you run in foreign country not knowing their laws and/or customs.

[@stanmitchell3375]

Molten salt reactors can use waste

[@nameundefined4317]

I wouldn't doubt if America already used the waste for our food. FIX OUR FOOD FFS

[@mitchellheckethorn6003]

Umm, fast reactors are what we use today. They produce helium, plutonium, and nuclear waste. Thorium reactors are the ones that burn through all of the nuclear material. But then there's no Helium or Bombs, see. I could see a world with both kinds of reactors being used for efficiency and radioactive pollution control. Burying it or throwing it in the ocean are both horrible ideas.

[@barnabasmurphy2271]

Think about that warp drive, at a warp speed of two point five, we as Americans can colonize Centauri and other places in the Galaxy, even in our life time, screw the future, the future is now.

[@ozloon2000]

400 to 600 deg does not water boil at 100 deg

[@vincebaker2754]

The hat moved!!! That hat hasn't moved an inch for a hundred videos. He must drink coffee really really fast because you never see a coffee cup on the desk.

[@patrickrussell1888]

All too complex, and with dictators and crazy people, security is at risk. Recycling doesn't sound very effecient, considering the half life and safety issues around plutonium. 😮

[@RPSchonherr]

If we start building MSRs that "spent" fuel can be reused. Right now, trying to recycle it just costs more than making new.

[@duanenavarre7234]

also with the LFTR MSR made by ORNL in the 1960's no need for fuel rods or pellets even.

[@ElvinBurnett]

If it is still creating heat for 5-7 years is it really spent? 🧐

[@joshuasmith-holley72]

ghandi and his nuclear bombs

[@deanwilliams1853]

no one there to have eye contact

[@jeremy-zs9gu]

Australia doesn't have nuclear reactors other than 2 test reactors at 2 university

[@Robert-xs2mv]

Officially. Off any such suggestion would be referred to as “ conspiracy theories “!

[@michaelhaywood8262]

Could disused deep bore coal mines be used to safely store spent non-recyclable nuclear fuel? There are plenty if such disused mines in Britain, most of our spent fuel is stored at Sellafield. Some could be recycled as in the video, could that which cannot be recycled buried in the ex-coal mines. The places which once produced the fuel of the past can be used for storing the waste from the fuel of the present and future. As for nuclear bombs, both uranium and plutonium can be used. The Hiroshima bomb was uranium and the Nagasaki bomb was plutonium.

[@sagarah8217]

Diamond nuclear batteries

[@Mashtaggreeny]

I must be missing something out of the way this all works. So they make these nuclear rods which give off heat that is then used to super heat water to turn into steam which turns turbines. Which the same as gas or coal power stations correct. Both gas and coal gets used and that leaves almost nothing as waste apart from the fumes given off from burning it. This nuclear waste you say is then kept under water for 6 to 7 years under water that is constantly cooled down as it's extremely hot still and is clearly hot which isn't that the whole point of having it in the first place so he it needs cooling diwn for many years and is still giving off all this heat why is that heat steam being used to generate more electricity. Surely the massive amount of heat from these spent rods and the amount of time needed to cool them down can be used also. Wouldn't it be better to let the heat given off to be harnessed by the circulation of the water that's constantly being heated to stay at a temperature that is useful. These circulation pumps need electricity to operate 24/7 yet the process to contain the waste is just a lesser version of super heating water to power turbines. The handling of waste is still all about the heat given off from it. Wouldn't increasing the water cooling temperature to the point it can still generate boiling water still be able to turn the blades to produce more electricity. Maybe its unstable which would explain why this isn't done. Its same same process to generate heat just one is called usable and then its called spent.

[@jackrowland1652]

Burning coal produces toxic was and tons of it. It also releases lots of Radon.

[@zbatchDOC]

Germany doesn’t have any nuclear reactors?

[@ianholmen888]

But why do a video of you like you are talking when it’s not your voice either

[@todg-69]

They have been finding theses barrels in bottom of ocean for ever

[@JakeInvest]

nice, nuclear waste in the ocean, what could go wrong

[@patrickrussell1888]

Really? Responsible countries?

[@williamweigt7632]

Citation?

[@jasonvonhaartman3325]

Can you use the heat from waste to heat homes, same way as heat pumps?

[@AtSafeDistance]

I don't want anything to do with that stuff. I'll figure out another way to heat my house.

[@TheBinarygenius]

So much is wrong with this video ☹

[@seanmccafferty2197]

Why not use it for electric cars it will have fuel forever

[@Archangelsword]

The process to clean it for reuse causes more radiological products and radiological waste that making new fuel does, I got an Idea, use the water on YOUR property to recycle it..😂😂

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"Why Doesn't Anyone Reuse Nuclear Waste?"

[@ricahaurymn]

Thank you for the video. Very informative.

[@barnabasmurphy2271]

We as Americans can make Star Ships by using engineers and scientists to build actual Star Ships with warp drives we have the technology, it is the scientists and engineers that are too lazy to put it together, they need to stop being lazy and build building Star Ships with warp drives.

[@polarisjq]

I love your videos. Your presentation is fantastic

[@taunteratwill1787]

Has Shocked the World ? NO! In fact no one has any idea what you're talking about. 😂

[@brandonblakely1770]

😁 ...just want to know if that is playdough you are fidgeting with?

[@svenlima]

@WATOP Can you please buy a dictionary and look up what "SHOCKED" really means - and then use it correctly. Shocked is something negative and it does *not* mean surprised. Thank you.

[@springinfialta106]

How many titles for this one video? Weird.

[@paulhylton9503]

ASH 😮😮

[@MrJugNut]

Question: Why is Australia mentioned here? We have zero active nuclear power stations & have but one or two test reactors that only make isotopes for research & medicine. So I wouldn't have thought we wouldn't have enough of the horrible stuff to even worry about, let alone enough to recycle? err yet anyway. There are talks of nuclear power stations down under but the "not in my back yard" group is strong down under, so... highly unlikely. Also we have orders in for 8 nuclear subs from our good mates in the US which is kinda odd when you think about it when we don't have any active reactors that could feed the mighty war beasties. Then again Mr Trump might soon do us Aussies a favour if he does what he said he would and reneges on the Ocus alliance agreement which would leave us without the before mentioned 8 nuclear subs which sounds great to me. This would save us Aussie tax payers an eye watering & completely nonsensical $800 billion ozzie sheckles which would almost certainly save us Aussies from going bankrupt and It would also save us from becoming the next nation with giant radioactive X painted all over it's people & lands. Now I can't speak for anyone else but if Mr Trump does do the dirty on us Aussies & Orcus it would sure help me sleep better at night. Hell i'd even consider buying Mr Trump a slab of beer & a new toupée if it would help sweeten the deal any?

[@mericanraised5356]

Bro wtf kinda thumbnails is this lol. They never match wth you are talking about..

[@indiva7106]

Soo glad you made this video must of read my reply from the last one lol great shite tho... Sooo wish we actually used fast reactors could save 97% of the fuel and reuse it and considering 85%+ of the oil reserves are gone here and then u get trumps remedial ass drill baby drill and thinks nuclear is neon green like in the Simpsons 😂😂

[@TheyCalledMeT]

19:28 they where able .. they just didn't want to create the political nightmare of shooting them

[@benjaminbruce4908]

not pretending your ''steve'' anymore?

[@damspulp]

Your “Steve”? Who’s Steve would that be. Is he my Steve or your Steve. I’m confused.

[@barnabasmurphy2271]

Plutonium and uranium, might be the key to use it in Star Ships with warp drives and build them with reusable energy put rest of the energy to use on the Star Ships weapons as high powered laser cannons, and very power laser cannon in the front of the Star Ships as a last resort. We already have that technology, the scientists and engineers are just too lazy to put it all together, and how lazy they are.

[@denverbraughler3948]

What’s “the upcoming presidential election”?

[@ampere-mam]

nuclear fuel recycling plant very close to farmland🙄🙄

[@murwur]

CAAFEEEEE