What Happens To Nuclear Waste?

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Nuclear waste is an extremely dangerous substance and must be disposed of by professionals, dressed head to toe in safety gear. But how do they actually get rid of nuclear waste after a major accident like Chernobyl? Watch today's amazing new video to find out how radioactive nuclear chemicals are actually disposed of, without contaminating everything and everyone around!

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You need to put it in a separate recycling bin, with a little radioactive atom symbol.

fsmoura

Three Mile Island was a very minor event. Not even a disaster. Most folks affected only got about as much radiation from the incident as several dental x-ray exams.

stalemateib

"What happens to nuclear waste?"

Me: The lunch ladies at school give it to children

dyingostrich

Black screen must be a missing piece, I must find the hidden scenes

CreateTeen

"measured in half-life"
yes a lot of radiation in half-life, you're right

jmeno

Every time he said half-life I thought of Gordon Freeman.

AlphaCharlieer

3:46 - 3:57 was this meant to happen infographics? I think one of your editors messed up and accidentally forgot to add a portion of animation there.

marcosmedia

The high level waste is not at all green goo that's kept in regular barrels like in the Simpsons. They are solid highly radioactive rods stored in robust containers called dry casks which are practically indistructable. In a test they have been rammed into a wall while on the back of both a flatbed truck and a train before being submerged into a pool of jet fuel set ablaze and the cask still remained intact.

theotherguy

@Infographics show. Your interpretation of radioactivity is a little off. Radioactivity is directly but inversely proportional to half life. The longer the half life the less radioactivity. Secondly what is the type of radiation being emitted? The type of radioactivity determines how to safely handle the isotopes.

BMC_self-invent

To correct a major detail of the video: shorter half-life = more unstable, more dangerous. The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the amount of time is required for half of it to have decayed into a more stable element, so the quicker it is able to do that means the faster it is pumping out radiation.

Vaeldarg

"The world is less likely to end now..."
Don't speak just yet, it's still 2020.

jpjp

nuclear power holds nuclear waste

me: lets drink I wanna become strong

Hitlerrou

I think it should be mentioned that stuff with a longer half life is also less radioactive. uranium 238 does have a half life of 4.4 billion years, but is mostly harmless because of it. "non-radioactive" stuff, is really just radioactive stuff with an infinite half-life, if you think about it.
Also there is a large difference between alpha, beta and gamma radiation. Alpha radiation for example can already be shielded by something like a piece of cardboard or aluminium foil, while you'll need thick lead plating for gamma radiation.

jortz