Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?

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Here in the Kurzgesagt labs we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds reasonable: Shooting nuclear waste into space. It is one of those concepts that seems like an easy fix for one of the main problems with nuclear energy. But it turns out this idea is not just bad but horribly bad and it gets worse the longer you think about it.
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maybe

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Agreed. I wear my Kurzgesagt Earth t-shirt with pride and am always delighted when my students recognise the art style.

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I don’t think of it as obscure research though. It’s extremely relevant given fossil fuels are a finite resource on the way out.

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ryan rogers 10 aylar önce

@Benjamin Haley Really prove that? Don't use a woke media source either

Jordon Smith 10 aylar önce

All for free.

karol306 9 aylar önce

Some hundred years ago people thought it's a good idea to throw waste into oceans since they're so huge and surely that won't be a problem. Got a similar vibe from this idea

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

You know what’s way easier than using rockets for dumping? Digging a hole in uninhabitable land (200 meters or so) and burying the waste there

Shooter Face123 9 aylar önce

I think he knows because he just watched the video that tells why nuclear waste shouldn’t be blasted into space and also included that burying them underground would be ideal.

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

@bossdunkz Scientifically speaking, it is the best solution. The capsules take thousands of years to decay along with the radioactive waste, meaning by the time the capsule is gone, the radioactive waste will no longer be radioactive. Basically just inert metal deposits in the middle of nowhere. Additionally, being buried means that none of its radiation will ever reach the surface or anything. Most radiation cannot penetrate solid materials (solar radiation travels through vacuum for this reason), but gamma rays can because they’re so small and require about one meter of concrete to stop their penetration. Being 200 meters to 1KM deep in the Earth itself means it’s extremely well insulated. As the contents are radioactive, we cannot risk it getting close to any ground water supplies or mineable materials. Geologists can determine what land has no such obstacles, provided it is also uninhabitable for nuclear burial and the location is documented so that no unsuspecting Geologists accidentally digs one up.

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I never thought I would hear "Rockets go brrrr" in a Kurzgesagt video but I love it

Isigia 9 aylar önce

Sameee! Nice to hear modern internet humor XD

0dark0 9 aylar önce

same XD

Hunter Bernard 9 aylar önce

2:40 Lmao yelling away this mess

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Yeah, 笑死，真的笑爛這科學節目越來越好玩了，字面上的🇹🇼😂👍🇹🇼 6:52

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Adaai 9 aylar önce

I’d be interested in seeing a video about the mathematics involved in calculating a trajectory to hit the sun.

I am Normal 9 aylar önce

That's top secret. There's unlimited supply of gold on the Sun.

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

@I am Normal No, it’s just Hydrogen that will become Helium in the Sun

Shooter Face123 9 aylar önce

The Redditor has discovered a discrepancy in your foolish statement and will make sure to correct it in its entirety

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@Mystery User 🤓🤓🤓

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One of few channels that has not changed since the beginning. Every Kurzgesagt video is a quality production that is very entertaining and informative. Quite possibly my favorite channel on Yotube. Every school in the world should adopt these videos in their educational system. Would actually get kids excited to learn.

Void 4 gün önce

Agree

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“Most countries are dealing with it by not dealing with it.” This channel is utterly amazing. 😂

Sumi 10 aylar önce

Which is simply true. 🤷‍♀️

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Matias Agudelo 10 aylar önce

"Experts would call this a huge problem" had me dying

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Chezborge 10 aylar önce

@tam nguyen ok

Zillychu 9 aylar önce

Hearing an amazingly talented narrator with a calm, sophisticated voice go "brrr" gave me enough seratonin to make it through the year. Bless you, Kursgesagt 💕

МЕМЕ.ехе 8 aylar önce

That was funny 💀

yeetub 4 aylar önce

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Michał C 4 aylar önce

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René Castro 4 aylar önce

Serotonin**

The Hamtart 9 aylar önce

I was sorta hoping you'd go further in depth with the bore-hole method of disposing of high level waste, but I'm still glad it was mentioned.

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

Yeah, why even calculate the rocket physics of blasting it into outer space when you’re not going to even bother explaining how simple it is to bury it in uninhabitable land anyways?

Kav 9 aylar önce

@Mystery User because this video was about shooting nuclear waste into space, not the best ways to deal with it

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

@Kav Except it is, because the assumption here is that shooting it into space is a means of disposal. Why not talk about how it is correctly disposed of? Many newer reactors can even just recycle waste into more energy

The Therran Native 9 aylar önce

@Mystery User That would probably require a whole new video on how it would be done and why it's safe. A lot of people would look at "put it underground" and become seriously worried about contaminating groundwater and the like. Kurzgesagt has always been very careful to explain the risks and lack of risks of things. A passing comment about the solution just isn't their style.

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

@The Therran Native There is no concern for ground water when it’s buried in uninhabitable land (is there ground water for it to contaminate? No) and in a capsule that will take literally thousands of years before leakage is even possible (rarer than lightning strike). This is all surface level information on how nuclear waste is disposed of. If the video’s topic is disposal, why focus so much on rockets and never actually get into how it’s done?

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Hades3k 9 aylar önce

Although I've thought about shooting waste into space or the sun. It constantly reminds me of the humans from 100 years ago who thought dropping waste into the deep ocean because it's vast and endless was a good idea too

JDNGAMER 9 aylar önce

Also the fact that some of it resurfaced and they decided that shooting it down was also a great idea.

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

Why shoot it into space when you can just bury it in uninhabitable land? Goes in a capsule, capsule goes underground about 200-1,000 meters and the radiation never gets out of its grave

lotion 6 aylar önce

@Mystery User People have been doing this but they have been doing it above ground in giant tombs. It also would make sense because even though that is probably a lot of space to use for waste there's only so nuch uranium on earth.

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@Mystery User We dug up the pyramids, just saying

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Andrew Williams 5 aylar önce

Pressure is the great motivator for humans, and that's by biological necessity. It's not efficient for us to focus time and energy on a problem that's far away or nebulous and intangible, when we have things like food and shelter to prioritise. That's also why we now have wokeism, climate alarmism, BLM, MeToo, and so on, that are so rampant... mainly imaginary, nebulous, or insignificant problems to overcome, because people have their necessities provided for and don't have kids or proper jobs, so they can expend effort on dumb or nonexistent things.

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Alternatively, there will be more money/tech in the future. They will be better at handling these issues than us

watch symphogear 26 gün önce

@Jacob KarlinI mean we already can somewhat deal with this issue with fast breeding reactors that recycle nuclear waste like in France But it still reletively new and will likely be expanded upon in the near future

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husky siberiano 9 aylar önce

well, you guys didnt talk about the "throwing the rockets into black holes" so the video definitly deserves a part 2

Baj the cuber 9 aylar önce

well, the thing is,the nearest black hole is 1500 lightyears away, so even at the speed of light, it would take 1500 years. but with our current tech, probably around a million years. all for some nuclear waste.

husky siberiano 9 aylar önce

Sooo creating a black hole to throw everything would be way more realistic? Am I right?🤨🧐🤔🤓

Batrongordeg 8 aylar önce

@husky siberiano i mean, yes destroying Earth by sucking it into a Black hole would solve the problem, but you couldnt watch TRvid after it so its probably not the best idea.

Elias Ben 6 aylar önce

@Baj the cuber By the time it reaches the black hole, humans will either be extinct or advanced enough to be able to swim in nuclear waste without any problem.

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5:50 your animation is getting insanely good. That rocket is burning dollar bills as fuel.

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One of our many "thought experiment" exercises we did in my college astrophysics classes was, what kind of rail gun would we need to launch waste into the sun. We actually worked out this was theoretically possible (even taking into account the Earth's orbital speed, if you time and aim the rail gun opposite the earth's rotational motion) The size of the rail gun is also theoretically possible, and expensive, but the cost to fire the gun was miniscule to the idea of a rocket for each payload.

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I thought it was fantastic they used that quote

Red Wyvern Emperor Aylar önce

There was a project that seemed pretty promising. The used up fuel still has a lot of energy in it, just not enough for the big reactors. So... how about we use them in small ones? Small reactors by each city, using used up nuclear fuel to make heat for the city. That would make almost free heat for everybody around, especially during winter, and would ensure the fuel is safely dealt with. After a certain time it would lose even what little energy it had and it would be way safer to deal with. I really liked that idea.

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Hearing the narrator go "BRRRRR" has made my vacation that much better. Thank you to everyone at In a Nutshell for your legendary contributions to educational entertainment.

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I’m going to play that clip everytime someone asks me why i love rockets

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that was giga cringe i can't take them seriously when they do this

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@AHHHHH it was for the funny

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I loved it. Super thesis on risk analysis and very well animated and also liked the way you cited the research papers as the part of video itself. Although I am little aware of some of the scientific aspects of the astrophysics. I lagged the imagination to think about different event scenarios. Thank you for the insights. 🙏🏼

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don't stop making content like this, it is very interesting.

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Trashing the moon with nuclear waste is about asserting dominance. I'm all for it. :P Amazing video, thank you for covering it! Often the easiest-sounding solution is the worst, because easy usually skips over critical details.

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"America can, should, must and will blow up the Moon!!"

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Experts would call this a huge problem. Died laughing. Love these videos. Educational and funny

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When experts say this would cause a huge problem, they really mean: "dude just dont, because this will lead to catarofic results"

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Rockets go… brrrrrrrrrrr

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When people are saying that germans don‘t have humor, usually they don‘t know about black humor.

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@Anders Mostue Something on that same level of stupidity would be to blow up the moon. Something dumb and impossible that we’re never going to do ever

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They have one

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Stuff is expensive, space is hard, and rockets go BRRRRR. Truly Occam's Razor is applicable to more than just problem-solving. Marvelous work, Kurzgesagt!

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I feel like the skill issue of not being able to hit the sun should be explored further

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"Rockets go brrrrrrrr" I love the comedic way how this channel puts things

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Always knew it was a bad idea but never knew why. Great video

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This is entirely predicated on launching with rockets. I seem to remember many videos on this channel referencing other methods to launch things into space (e.g. skyhook).

Geek Hillbilly Aylar önce

If you have ever watched the 1970s Sci-fi series "Space 1999", the premis was to store nuclear waste on the far side of the moon, out of sight and out of mind. But the amount stored in Waste Disposal Area #2 was so great, it chain reacted and blasted the Moon away from Earth, taking the 320 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha into a universe spanning adventure.

handmetheparachute 10 aylar önce

Lol Gozilla popping up a second time on the moon is genuinely the hardest I've laughed at one of these videos 😂 Well done 👏

Zantetsuken 9 aylar önce

I love how this channel scares the living life hot of me then reassures me

Grafton Hale 4 aylar önce

I thought of firing this stuff into the sun awhile back and I still think it could work. The sun is a gravity well and with careful calculation a terminal track could be established. At least try it with a very light load and see if it works.

pizza time 10 aylar önce

This channel is slowly becoming my favorite channel on TRvid

NightPaddle 7 aylar önce

Here in Germany we do something called "Schrottwichteln" around Christmas time in schools or at work. It works as it follows: You get a random partner to whom you have to make a usually not well thought out present. So it roughly translates to "Garbage Presents". Since in the past it worked out for me with old motor oil or car battaries, I am really looking forward to my new job in a nuclear power plant...

Doug 10 aylar önce

The production value of this was 11/10, well done animators

outer.hearthian 10 aylar önce

You must be new, all of their videos are this high quality :)

veer 10 aylar önce

Like always? They've always made videos like this 😆

2Glock30s 10 aylar önce

Welcome, you will like it here.

Doug 10 aylar önce

I've watched for years. They aren't all like this, there is a noticeable and applaudable improvement video after video and this one for me felt like a huge cut above - the team deserves recognition for their improvement.

2Glock30s 10 aylar önce

@Doug: You don't gotta lie to kick it... We are cool over here.

Chezborge 10 aylar önce

Moment of silence for the animators,sound makers and generally all people who made kurzgesagt.... thank you.

paladinofthelostdays 9 aylar önce

Wouldn't mass drivers be a viable alternative to rockets, vastly reducing the hypothetical cost? And if so, would it be possible to fine tune them to put the waste into a suitably undesirable location (like mercury or a foreign moon) or just out of the solar system entirely? If this isn't viable, why not?

Mystery User 9 aylar önce

A lead capsule and hole in the ground on some uninhabitable land would also reduce the cost and need to involve space in a simple process

Fotonik Super Duper 9 aylar önce

Earth has high gravity and dense atmosphere, so kinetic energy loss will be huge, and a bigger railgun is needed. On the Moon and moons this is much feasible though, maybe after 100 years the jovian moon colony is powered by fission power and nuclear waste is yeeted directly into Jupiter by a railgun

Naberville3 9 aylar önce

@Mystery User doesn't even need to be "uninhabitable" if it's deep enough

Espen Urkedal 8 aylar önce

Using a mass driver from earth is very impractical due to the atmosphere. A practical byproduct of rockets is that they start slowly in the thick part of the atmosphere and go faster as the pressure goes down. A mass driver would do the opposite and start out fast in the thick part of the atmosphere, which causes enormous heating. So, a lot of the payload would have to be heat shielding. I addition, the velocity lost due to the atmosphere means you still need a rocket stage at the end (like SpinLaunch is planning), or start out at impractically high speeds with much higher heating. For spacecraft reentry it works out so that if you 2x the speed, the heat energy goes up 8x. But that's coming in from thin to thick atmosphere, and it might be even worse if starting in the thick part. A mass driver solution might work from the moon, but then you still need rockets to get stuff to the moon in the first place (in addition to all the rockets required for constructing the mass driver and supporting infrastructure).

Krzysztof Kawałkowski 4 aylar önce

2000 hours , I mean yeah, it probably took a lot of research, some calculations maybe and video editing and animation, but 2000 hours still sound pretty insane

GinaLee 10 aylar önce

More than 2000 hours for this nearly 11 minutes video. This is what we call positive madness.

Federico Jimbo Smithson 9 aylar önce

I admire their dedication to quality, beauty, and correctness of their content

universegurl 7 aylar önce

I'm trying to understand the universe and ur helping me do that I enjoy ur vids and art style keep it up😀

Cheeseburger Runner 10 aylar önce

The production and research value of each of these videos is incredible and I don’t know how to say thank you enough to the team at Kurzgesagt.

Cloe does things 10 aylar önce

Yeah they always do great (way better then I will ever be)

Neby Moges 10 aylar önce

even funnier when he says things like yeat

Cloe does things 10 aylar önce

@Neby Moges yeah it's like there trying to stay professional but someone wrote that on the script and they had to say it

Krishna Bharadwaj 10 aylar önce

Please buy the calendar to support them.

D. S. 10 aylar önce

support them by purchasing calendar and other goodies from their website

Van Rex 7 aylar önce

Would be actually pretty interesting if we had something like orbital rings with elevators. Then you could safely ship hundreds of thousands of tons of waste up and than catapult it from the orbital ring straight into the sun 😂

Yan Besidski 8 aylar önce

Excellent channel! Please add the ability to give tips for videos, as many other youtube channels do. In my opinion, it is the easiest way for people to support you.

ilham hatem 6 aylar önce

A group of people making extraordinary videos that give better information than schools us watching all of it in a minute

Jasper Lyon 10 aylar önce

I love this video because this is a question I asked in my AP environmental science class that my teacher didn’t have an answer for. Thanks kurzgesagt

Mzwa S 7 aylar önce

@4:49 -- the observer's reaction, the roar -- all just pure nuclear nightmare perfection!

GameSpace 10 aylar önce

I swear Kurzegesagt is one of the greatest channels ever! Interesting, educational and fun while at the same time encouraging everyone to make the world a better place.

CheesePatrol 10 aylar önce

Yes, their stuff always makes me feel so much better about the world. And it all looks so cute and mesmerizing. So I’m sure everything they say must be true.

huy nguyen 10 aylar önce

Fernia 10 aylar önce

also encouraging people to terraform other planets starting now same thing

Jeremonkey 10 aylar önce

Agreed

medexamtoolsdotcom 10 aylar önce

It's not as great as you think. I remember them talking about the possible ends of the universe, like the big crunch vs big freeze and big rip, and at the end, they actually said they CHOOSE to believe in an infinite series of big crunches and big bangs in an eternal cycle because they considered it to be the most "uplifting". That is antithetical to science, to believe something without evidence because it is the thing you most wish was true. In fact, we have a word for that, it's called religion.

mortrexo 9 aylar önce

4:50 "Experts would call this, a huge problem." I love them so much, hahaha. Great video.

Sven Lie 8 aylar önce

It might be a good idea if we use the tubes (I forgot their name) that can launch stuff trough space and use the space hooks to make checkpoints (as the tubes probably have limited range) to launch everything far out of space

Gordon Fecyk 8 aylar önce

Mass drivers, coupled with orbital tethers. Might be a minor problem accelerating something to hypersonic speed from low altitudes though.

Matisse Ronot 2 aylar önce

I love the music of this one! Had to point it out. "According to scientists: space is big and nobody lives there". Mind = blown Great stuff ^^

GDam 9 aylar önce

It's cool that they explain this, the first and foremost issue is the failure rate of rockets, if a rocket that was filled with nuclear waste explodes in transit, it would be akin to a dirty bomb.

Doominator 407 6 aylar önce

I’ve been watching some of your videos for a while ( mostly the terraforming ones ) and I remember you did one on dropping nuclear bombs on Mars to terraform it. My question is instead of sending it into space why don’t we send it to one of the planets ( Mars or Venus) that we wish to colonise in the far future!

Barry Family 10 aylar önce

“Which experts call: a huge problem”😂😂😂 Nice. Just discovered this channel and absolutely love it!

Lucas 10 aylar önce

Excited for you, you have a ton of amazing videos from them that you get to catch up on. Fantastic channel!

Robert Abugelis 10 aylar önce

Welcome and Enjoy! I wish I had all these to watch again for the first time.

damysticalone87 9 aylar önce

They have stolen the half (if not all) of that from me! Just read my profiles, comments, posts, pictures, as those do!

Mar Vert Jayson Neyra 9 aylar önce

I would love to be you right now my dude, i would love to watch their videos again for the first time!

s.c. 6 aylar önce

“According to scientists, space is very big” Same energy haha

NoMore Constipation 10 aylar önce

I'm surprised they didn't go over trying to get it in orbit and then repurpose it as energy. Not that this was a good idea but I think I have heard or read about this being thought of as a decent idea for like fuel to Mars or whatever

Erik Martin 10 aylar önce

"Not great, not terrible." If that was not a nod to the Chernobyl series, it was a hell of a choice of words that just happened to fit this topic absolutely perfectly (to those that have seen the show.)

Cybertramon 001 5 aylar önce

Honestly, when I clicked on this video, I assumed the problem was that the waste is going to stay in motion until it hits something, and we end up irradiating other planets in the galaxy. Didn't even know that things might orbit back to us.

Say Simon Said 9 aylar önce

I love this channel! 11 minutes of video that could have been summed up in 2 words. "Challenger explosion"

Anthony Zeedyk 4 aylar önce

There's a middle ground between shooting it randomly into space and shooting it at something. You can park it all in a specific orbit and grow a little planet of nuclear waste over time in a predefined area. Cheap, accessible nuclear energy can also bring down the cost of creating rockets. You will want to fix the "Rockets go brrrr" problem, though.

Talisa Moon Henriksen 10 aylar önce

‘Yeeting things into space’ and we love Kurzgesagt for their advanced vocabulary. Thank you for a great video as always!

Julius Seizure 10 aylar önce

Rockets go brrrrrr

SAHM 10 aylar önce

They should make a video about dynamics of language, and it starts with ancient English, slowly going to modern styles.

Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 10 aylar önce

Steve should have to put a quarter in a jar every time he says "yeet."

Reknot 10 aylar önce

It took me a second to realize that it was indeed what this glorious man said.

Devwardhan Kothari 10 aylar önce

I was searching for people who noticed! It was so funny lol

Bloody Mobile 10 aylar önce

Just as I was wondering what one of the issues could be, I remembered what KSP taught me: deltaV Only getting that stuff into orbit doesn't make it "go away", it's simply doing that now, orbit us...

The Genius 9 aylar önce

Imagine flying into space and seeing Aliens picking up waste during community service

Patrick 8 aylar önce

And the Aliens will come to earth and give us a bill.

The Genius 8 aylar önce

@Patrick lmao

boomer150 6 aylar önce

I read about a new technique, a company in CA developed a miniature tunnel boring machine that can create a 3 ft wide concrete lined tunnel that can go down thousands of feet. Far below any water table or natural resources. This can be set up wherever the reactor is so there is no transportation of dangerous materials. Once it has reached the desired depth it goes horizontal and keeps going another few thousands feet. Creating a 3 mile long concrete lined tunnel. Radioactive material can be sealed in cases, inserted into the tunnel and pushed to the bottom, then the next and the next and then filled in with concrete. Its so far down even if a case is breached the radiation can't do any harm. Then another tunnel can be dug right next to that one and when he goes horizontal it goes in another direction, repeat as many times as necessary. I believe this may be the best method of dealing with radioactive waste.

Karan Jadhav 9 aylar önce

I really love this channel and would like to support the community but everything is in USD... I'm from India like the others half millions of viewers from different countries so please make it available, understandable & affordable as per their economical/geographical location it will help more to reach more people and bring capital support for community as well...

The Appalachian Entertainer 4 aylar önce

I worked at a coal power plant, with every modern bell and whistle, and heres the fact, the ash is caught through filters, with almost no escapees, and sent into a silo, to be mixed with limestone and water, which reduces its danger, and then, after it becomes this slurry, it is dried and shipped out for use in drywall, sheetrock, and particle board! What ash that does escape still doesn’t truly escape as it is shot into those big stacks, mixed with the limestone and water, and then blasted out of the top. Its entire journey through the stack is heavily filtered, so the smoke, or rather steam, is white, and has almost no trace of the ash that is left. The CO2 emissions as well are handled by the stack, as it is transferred from CO2 to O2 by the plentiful filters located all the way through the duct work in the entire plant.

Pyo Heliobros 10 aylar önce

"Experts would call this: *a huge problem*" I love it

Zach Wilson 10 aylar önce

Then Godzilla rises out of the ground

Max the King 10 aylar önce

"Rackets go Brrrrrrrrrrr" really caught me of guard as well :D

Aisling Oharrigan 9 aylar önce

I think what people mean by sending waste into space is sending it to deep space, not low earth orbit; which would be really really really stupid since the orbit could degrade and then crash into a populated area.

REL Chobaz 7 aylar önce

I never would have guessed it takes more energy to hit the sun than leave the solar system. It makes sense though

EvoBeDevo 9 aylar önce

It's not just me that recognizes that this is the "Midas Apocalypse" music, yeah? I think in general this is evolving to become the "Silly/Bad Ideas" leitmotif. I love how Epic Mountain is handling these musical themes~

Limerence 11 gün önce

What if you sent it to Jupiter? You wouldn't have to cancel out the orbit and if it missed it would just orbit around Jupiter instead. Probably the best option if you figured out how safely get it into space.

Morteza Ehsani 10 aylar önce

You might not believe it, but today I asked exactly the same question from my physics teacher in high school and he couldn't give me a convincing answer to it. So, I wrote the question on my palm to search about it later after school, and now, you The Great Kurzgesagt have given me all the information I need about the matter. Thanks a million!

Wall Dorf 10 aylar önce

Send your teacher the video or tell him where to find it. Might make good lesson material :)

Mr. Boomguy 10 aylar önce

We all got such moments 😉. Sometimes I get recomendations on youtube on a thing I just talked about with someone. It really feels like they're listining sometimes. But your case where far more wholesome