What Happens To Nuclear Waste? 

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

2020: *_vigorously takes notes_*

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

"What happens to nuclear waste?" Me: The lunch ladies at school give it to children

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.

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

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

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.

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.

@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.

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.

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

nuclear power holds nuclear waste me: lets drink I wanna become strong

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.

If you're America probably dump it somewhere while no one is looking...

2020: you’ll find out soon

2020:write that down,write that down

2020: *WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN*

Have a goodnight or day who evers reading this :p

It gets sent to Cleveland

half life fans really getting excited about hearing the words half life even in a different context. wild

“These radiation elements have a Half Life of a long time” Every Half Life Fan: *klaxon beat intensifies*

Infographics : "Current Space Shuttles..." *Space Nerd cringes*

Takes a shower comes back to see a video so I don’t have to sleep 🤣

What is infographics talking about? There is already an underground nuclear disposal site at Hanford in Washington state, USA. It is a system of underground caves 5000 feet underground. The site at the entrance of the caves was a warehouse and laboratory where the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was designed and built.

Finland kinda solved this problem already, vaults inside the bedrock that hold the waste safely for 100,000 years. Look it up, pretty interesting stuff

“ and if somebody wasn’t handing the planet safety correctly, like a bald bumbler from Springfield” *Massachusans sweat profusely*

When the narrator said, "Doh!", I felt that

Wait so if I come into contact with something radioactive... I am technically low level radioactive waste?

I'm not sure if you guys improved your animation department but your shows are looking better every day!

As someone who genuinely feared about Godzillla growing up, thank you for presenting this horrifying reality.

Those stereotypical giant cones don't have any part in generating power. Their function is to cool the water coming out the other side of the process.

2:43 I thought she was Ms. Thickums.

7:46 Why are there penguins? They’re talking about the arctic.

The earth won't cry with dumping of nuclear waste. That's what keeps its core hot.

This channel should make more videos like this about energy sources and engineering.

We’re actually working on an enzyme that eats away radioactive waste

When you realize there is a nuclear power plant near Springfield....

To be accurate, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid started operations in June 27, 1954 in Obninsk of the Soviet Union. So Fermi was not opening a power plant (like in 0:14), but supervised a first sustained chain reaction in 1942.

Every time I have a question, I look it up on RU-vid, and you guys have the answer. Thanks!!

6:47 I didn't know Abby and Lorain worked at the nuclear plant.

Well, also solar pannells are really harmful for the environment after they reach their end.

There is a lot of visual fear mongering in this video. Both in the depiction of what nuclear waste actually looks like, and the way it is very easily stored and managed.

The way he hit the Homer was hilarious lol

Looove this narrator

6:56 dude has two heads

Deep sea subduction zones. Encase high level waste in spherical casks made of osmium (the densest element) with a shell about a foot think, and drop them into the ocean above deep sea subduction zones (where one continental plate is being pushed under another). The spherical shape is to ensure the maximum strength and to improve the possibility of the casks rolling down hill toward the junction between plates. The goal would be to get the Earth itself to eat the waste.

I see the infographics show I click, nice and simple

Haven’t watched but I assume that they just put it away and cover it up.

That dough sound haha

That’s crazy I live like 45 minutes from Derry township In PA I never knew that wow that’s crazy

Always kinda wondered if it would be feasible to build nuclear plants inside mountains. Wouldn't that provide waste disposal as well as a decent barrier in case of any melt downs?

Great video I’ve always wondered what they do with those.

You guys should do a video on the benefits of thorium reactors

You’re wrong about the cement in barrels method. It take 5 times more volume. Glass processing of HLW is the best option. Geological disposal is many times safer than storing them on the surface, you cannot keep radioactive waste exposed to the biosphere.

@1:28 This is extremely inaccurate - there was no cleanup of the surrounding area, because one wasn't necessary. The cleanup effort was contained to the plant and the reactor vessel itself. @1:48 Inaccurate again - almost no one is recycling fuel at this point, largely due to political pressure brought about by anti-nuclear hysteria.

Nah fam the nuclear waste is disposed in detroit. Lol

I toured 3 mile island when o was at Penn State Harrisburg in middletown about 10 years ago, that place is cool. It was sad when they shut it down a few years ago and all stories seem to be exaggerated. And the increased cancer and stuff probably has to do with better detection in all those countries.

My friend: I wonder where nuclear waste goes me: Finland it all goes under Finland

Plot twist it is all the bad parents

you are misleading people when the mouse “eats” nuclear waste and turns into a monster

2023: thinking what disaster should I use

Love your vids keep up the Great

me casually making a massive nuclear powerplant in a game and then dumping the waste in the ocean, also me : O O P S

Chernoboyl was great series But I don't want to see another season. So keep nuclear waste safe and secure

I love this channel it teaches me alot

you did not mention the Molten Salt Reactor which is basically safer and more efficient by orders of magnitude and it was developed in the 60s

Why does this video have so many editing mistakes...

A Russian watching this video: my fellow comrades we must take notes to build better nuclear power plant TAKE NOTES!!

lol an infographics animated Homer Simpson? genius!

2:38 theres a power plant in sydney, australia

Me: Wanting to visit Chernobyl..

Heyyyyyyyy I’m not first but at least I was here. :)

It just gets left there.

Do a video on greatest robbery thefts who never got caught

We just need better technology to deal with the waste. Like dealing with the space junk floating out surrounding earth as we speak.

As a french engineering student : been there, done that. NUCLEAR POWER FOR DAYS!!!

0:20 ayyy I live near the power plant at the bottom of texas

I like how homer simpson is at 0:44

You should have covered thorium reactors, they are safer and can consume nuclear waste

Who here whants the infografic show to show there face. Like is you whant them too👍

Used this for a project, and got an A!

Really the short half-life are the dangerous stuff. Like the stuff less than 6 hours is really dangerous stuff but after like 4 days the stuff is basically all gone. The stuff with long half-life in contrast is far less radioactive and dangerous. What this means is stuff first taken out of the reactor is very radioactive and dangerous. This radioactively drops off very fast at first. This is why waste fuel rods need to be stored in water at first. After a relatively short period of time the radioactively drops off massively and the waste can be stored concrete caskes. Yes they need have some passive air cooling but really it's not much to be concerned about. What's left after fifty years or so is mostly long life radioactive materials that are not very dangerous.

I hope ya'll who read this comment will accomplish your dreams in life.

No matter how fast i click im never first

From what I've seen it rents a room in my house

Hey I’m from the future did you guys get thru world war 3 after the 5th round of corona and the giant nuclear waste spill? This video reminded me of it

Earth is cancelled. Got some tickets to mars, who wanna come? Note:- Karens and Boomers are not allowed. Only GenZ accepted.

Trump eats it. That's how he gets his healthy orange glow.

Bruh they called 3 cooling towers a nuclear reactor, those towers are emitting steam and are just used to cool water down

whoever wrote the space travel bit needs to update their information. the space shuttle hasn't been flown since 2011 and is retired. but wait, there's this other guy......

love your show it is the GOAT

@theInfoGraphicsShow which nuclear power plant exactly is it that you Marked in Jutland (Denmark) at around 00:29. There's no nuclear power plants in Denmark..

It gets stored on Shadow Moses Island, off the coast of Alaska.

I was in an online class watching a Infographics show episode about the T-34 Russian tank and then my teacher talked about a nuclear accident that happened in my area and I googled it to be met by another infographics episode.... nice

3:47 animator got lazy xd

We went to Olkiluoto on our schooltrip, and saw where they kept the waste

Btw Ireland 0:21 has no nuclear power plants Not all of the worlds top economies have nuclear power as well Ireland is 4th in GDP per capita and has no nuclear power.

Just wrote a research paper on this exact topic. Very cool

This is crazy. I live in Bethlehem PA