Wasteland: The nuclear graveyard under New Mexico
Wasteland: The nuclear graveyard under New Mexico
Today, nearly 70,000 tons of nuclear waste sits outside nuclear power plants across the country. For the last half-century, scientists and politicians have struggled to create a viable solution for permanent waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, located 90 miles outside Las Vegas. They’ve failed. As the political dust settles over Yucca, eyes turn to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
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Stop Nuclear energy
Nuclear steam cauldrons require hot uruanium rods that are made in Eastern Europe and China. The Uranium is cooked for months with enormous quantities of coal. Nuclear enrichment blackens the air so badly the U.S. moved their enrichment plants to China. Nuclear power is as wasteful as dropping hot rocks in a pot of water to make steam. The only advantage for the rulers are the by product is their weapons grade putonium necessary to kill people and it benefits the coal industry immensely.
Ummmmm….so how did they wreck to changing road hazards?
"do not dig or drill here before a.d. 12000" 👀
make an unbreakable container out of titanium.. then shoot it into the sun .. design it to remaine intact even if the rocket fails.
Nuclear is incredibly costly to taxpayers
its obvious that all the nuke waste into the sea and water tables, the disasters in chernob and fuku, and the 3000+ nukes (including a very northerly detonated czar bomba) are the real players in ‘man caused’ climate change puzzle. no one talks about the elephant. NONE of the radiation over the last 60 years has vanished. it settles into the living,(accumulates in the organs unable to exit), and in the forest, eventually into the earth ..since its not water soluble and is ‘heavy’ it then eventually settle in the muck at the bottom of the sea where it is now working its way into the methane hydrates …certain disaster! When the hydrates melt there are by products released like high amounts of carbon. All the radiation is hot and is the cause of sea temperature change. NUKE ENERGY IS THE DISASTER that has caused the most global warming of mans responsibility.
They are turning it into glass in some places-much better than liquid! I’m sure still could be problems! So impressed by all people working so hard on important issues!
big question how deep are you going? Way below the water table ?
This is not good enough we need a better solution.
Store it in Washington DC. Under the white house.
I’m about to get hired here
Maybe I missed something, but is this video about low-level waste or high-level waste? It mentions both, and maybe I just missed the turning point with all the dramatic music, but was there one? What is the difference between storing LLW and HLW? I would think HLW would be worse because it lasts much longer, but LLW can be quite nasty if ingested. Now I’m curious what we plan to do with all the intermediate-level waste… Maybe less dramatic music next time and more explanation?
Shoot it to the Moon
They made a big mess of disposal when they bought the wrong kitty litter used to mix with the transuranic waste in the barrels, they bought organic litter instead of clay and it caused a reaction with the waste spreading plutonium all over the place.
The most poisonous substance LOL. The reason why you’re not allowed to use nuclear is because it’s a self-sustaining energy source. Meaning you put the fuel in you close it up and let it go and it makes energy forever – until your machine falls apart you got to replace pieces. There is no radioactive anything however the people that want to charge you a lot of money for things like oil to burn to make electricity (United States is the only country that does this on a large wasteful scale by the way).
So continue with the same old same old because nuclear is bad says the oil tycoons.
If they have reactors now that eat neuclar waste I would like to hear about it . even though I hate neuclar energy for safety issues .if it’s spent fuel it should be inert . it’s not to my understanding.
This is not good enough we need a better solution.
Me: Can we go visit Black Mesa?
Mom: We have Black Mesa at home.
Black Mesa at home:
It’s to late now????????
Billions of dollars invested in Yucca Mountain and in Navada.
We should make them return the money.
I love how politicians exaggerate that the trucks would drive through the Vegas strip and park outside of preschools… how ridiculous his statements were.
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Fossil fuels causing global warming,
No one is willing to admit nuclear waste has caused global warming.
It’s been closed due to earthquake activity in the area and a faultline right through the facility!
Low level……..so obviously there’s more and higher levels ……yikes
whats the proplem to have nuclear waste if its 1000m below the ground lol
Yucca Mtn would have been an economic base for NV.
unwatchable due to intrusive background music
More solutions will be discovered in the future!
It was the worst short term plan that made the DC pols rich. Now it IS an even worse long range plan.
I don’t get why all these people are so against having a cool as nuclear waste storage factory especially if it is decorated in such a foreboding way. Like that’s basically a work of art.
It’s NUCLEAR…not NUCULAR.
Wow! This place looks super honorable! I sure hope some great deeds are esteemed here!
the NUCLEAR WASTE SHOULD BE BURIED UNDER WASHINGTON DC!!! BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY LAND BELONGING TO "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC." INCORPORATED IN LONDON ENGLAND!!!!!
What a colossal waste of money. If you can’t go near the big containers because they’re highly radioactive so they have to be moved around by machinery…. This would imply that the nuclear radiation or high levels of atomic radiation is able to permeate through the container it’s being held and givin the laws of the universe that means it would be permeating most likely at the same strength and distance from every angle of the container it’s being held in. This would have to be logic based on the statements that were made. So that being the supposed situation would mean those people would not even be able to be standing anywhere near the machinery that is used to haul around this atomic nuclear waste because the entire room and building would be contaminated with atomic radiation.
Like what kind of sense does that make? You can’t go near the container because it’s too radioactive and radioactivity as you know has a very long lifespan. Can’t go to Chernobyl because the building is full of radiation but it’s highly okay to go into the hallways or this fresh nuclear waste was transported because in America the atomic radiation won’t contaminate the building. Loloolol.
The United States ‘might not’ be there in 3000 years? It might be split up into a few States… If this is the intelligence level of the people running this it’s a good thing it’s a scam.
All this to boil water and make money.
Does anyone know how much this project cost?
Our only Refuge and Hope is in the Son of God. Immanuel God with us spoke Truth Forever please Pray for everyone, every day … Peace
That stuff is invaluable for the creation of SUPER heavy metals.
that supervisors desk, old school file cabinet from 1952, and dim lit office space should be your first clue
we’re in trouble.
Curious to know what would happen if we sent the waste towards the sun, would it burn up and be destroyed or would it cause the sun to spiral out of control and blow us all up ?
we dont want the waste but we want the electricity………….morons
Dosimeters or Radiac meters would tell you if the levels are dangerous or not. Another way you can tell is if your friends see a glow about you at night after receiving a complimentary visit of the test sites.
STOP MAKING MORE WASTE !!!
Why we are not recycling it see france it has already done this and even created nuclear fuel out of it I think us should do the same
WTF is up with that picture quality?
Nuclear Specialist Navy Lt. Jimmy Carter. He was called to Idaho 1951 disaster. He was called to 3 Mile Island disaster 1979
You’ve gotta reprocess this stuff. Get the half life under 500 years and provide low cost fuel for future reactors. Pull out the valuable resources from the fuel and make the size of the waste as small as possible. And finally, make it clear to Nevada and New Mexico, that the waste is coming your way. Offer them deals on low cost energy if it can smooth the skids, but ship it to the locations and problem solved.
Why haven’t we tried launching it into space yet? Not even into the sun but just into space and out of earths orbit where it will float furter away from earth indefinitely.
Harry Reid must be one of the worst and useless politicians in the U.S. History..!!
I wonder if those warning sign could last for 9980 years.