You're Being Lied To About Nuclear Waste | Truth Complex

Nearly 80 years of nuclear waste in the US is currently stranded — stuck in "temporary" storage sites without a permanent place to go. How big of a problem is this? And could recycling this waste solve the problem?

Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley sifts through the noise and talks to experts to find out the truth.

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00:00 - Intro
01:21 - What is nuclear waste?
02:51 - How much is there?
03:31 - The solution: deep geological repositories
04:06 - How temporary storage works
04:54 - Risks of temporary storage
07:55 - San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
08:07 - Fukushima disaster
09:12 - How the Onkalo deep geological repository works
11:15 - History of nuclear waste in the US
12:41 - Yucca Mountain, Nevada repository debacle
14:41 - Why Americans are paying for nuclear waste
17:11 - How nuclear waste recycling works
19:39 - Risk of nuclear weapons proliferation
21:26 - Do we really need a repository?
22:03 - "Advanced nuclear" and waste
23:13 - Nuclear waste compared to other energy sources
25:24 - Credits

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