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We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago

Kyle Hill · 4.5M views · 2022-03-27 · 18:14

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Overview

Kyle Hill explains what nuclear waste actually is and how it is stored, arguing that the problem was effectively solved decades ago. It covers solid shielded waste and deep geological storage.

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Cited in nuclear power debates to argue that waste storage is a political rather than technical problem.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2022–2022

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Nuclear power & fusion
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slenk · 2022-07 · Recommendation

Nuclear waste, as far as I have been learning, is pretty "safe". Yeah, you need a place to deal with it, but it's mostly highly shielded solids. A video I watched recently explaining a lot: [VIDEO]

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devoutsalsa · 2022-06 · Recommendation

Nuclear waste isn't a problem if you drill a hole that's deep enough, encase the waste in a "dry cask", and drop it in the hole. Kyle Hill did a great video on this... "We solved nuclear waste decades ago" => [VIDEO]

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slavik81 · 2022-09 · Reference

We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago - [VIDEO] The safe long-term storage of nuclear waste is not a technical problem. It's a political problem. The public opposes even just doing research into safer storage methods for nuclear waste. In 2016, the Department of Energy test wells for deep borehole disposal were cancelled due to protests. The tests were not even going to involve nuclear material! The opposition feared that the tests might show that the area was geologically appropriate for the safe storage of nuclear waste.

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