Nuclear Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Nuclear waste poses a serious threat to public health if it's not stored in a safe place. John Oliver explains why the United States desperately needs to build a metaphorical toilet for all that waste.
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I think as far as dolls go, if one is staring at you, 'unblinking' is exactly what you want.
Omg thats gold!
Very underrated commented. XD
My realdoll stares at me unblinking during sex
Samantha O'Hara basically. If it does blink when its not supposed to you should probably see a priest.
indeed
The problem is that we are dealing with this using politics instead of science.
Yes. Yes it is.
That's the problem with everything today.
Exactly. 👏
Science got us here though. 😢
Politics kinda controls science. We didn't totally allow science to have it's own space in the private sector.
I’m surprised America hasn’t made football fields an actual unit of measurement yet.
Dear Shark, there's an even better unit of radiation measurement. One banana's worth of becquerels. One becquerel, Bq, is one radiation event per second. The very rare and long lived potassium isotope 40, which is the source of nearly all the argon in the atmosphere (argon is astoundingly inert) is of course present in all samples of the potassium our bodies and just about every other living organism needs. A banana emits at a rate of roughly 15 Bq. Your body internally receives about 4000 to 5000 Bq, or 4 to 5 kBq. Every living thing on the planet has been adapted by evolution to cope with this.
*get the fucking METRIC SYSTEM* ... you already got it in your lawbooks... jesus
Miguel Sanchez trying to get a country to agree on one thing is impossible so we just learn both
Es tut mir leid it’s easier to describe something in a way most people know
@Austin Fehr Fantastic!
Hearing him call Hartford a "Big City" basically gave me the same reaction as the Roku guys did to being called a "Big Tech Company." "Look! The TV man called our city a 'Big City!' We aren't boring as fuck and useless to the USA! It's finally happening!"
Hartford what state is that in Texas?
@@malikthemadman Connecticut, if you're not making fun of our itty bitty state.
@@theflyingspaget Honestly I don't know Connecticut is it the incest one or the gun one?
@@malikthemadman Neither. We're just the third smallest state, only interesting thing about us.
@@theflyingspaget Damn that sucks
"Naval aircraft were summoned to strafe them with machine-gun fire..."
Considering we're talking about waste disposal, that may just be the most American thing I've ever heard.
The pilots were also drunk and eating Big Macs as they fired their machine guns.
Somewhere in the distance, a Toby Keith song was playing.
On a related note these weren't the plane's guns but those the pilots brought with them from their second ammendment emergency stash
Thomas Saldana : ARE THE NAVY SHIP WORING 24/7 . ? .THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT FACTS .!!!!! .🔥☠️🔥....
@@belkys120 Sorry dude.... what???
It worked didn't it, 'MERICA
I love how he always pick up different topics that aren't talked about 24/7 in other tonight shows
Fabian Mango - Agreed, and his show often pick up extremely important stories, that all the other news really should be coveringt. Like civil asset forfeiture, the terrible state of US infrastructure and net neutrality - All subjects that should be debated at length other places.
Instead news outlets are too busy talking about how 13 people died in Barcelona for 3 days. Meanwhile there are over 27 homicides and 105 suicides every day in the USA.
There are almost ten times more people every day in France (where I live) who dies to air polution at a DAILY rate but suddenly, because he's some lunatic doing this shit "in the name of god" or whatever, 13 becomes more important than 115 daily ...
Another interesting thing I noticed when looking for these numbers, is the amount of pages google gave me showing how many people of the same nationality than I were victims, because clearly that's the most important thing to know apparently, right ? The medias are doing the terrorists' work for them.
I agree with both of you
Except he uses clips from other news reporters instead of actual experts or papers....
Agreed
The whole Feilicity bit is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Missile: *Exploding*
Audience: *dying of laughter*
Quite litterally
Laughing at something horrific is a coping mechanism
@@ForrestFox626 yeah, only do it within the comfort of your home tho.
@@ForrestFox626 what is so horrific? It was "only" a lot of money being burned.
Missile loaded with nuclear waste: exploding
Audience: Dying.
"...she stares unblinking..." yes, but can you imagine how much worse it would be if it did blink?
I wanted to like this comment, but it already has perfect "123" likes!
\m/.
@@SurajBHegde Well,you can like it now,as it has 223 likes,after i just retracted mine :P :D ;) = ) ... .
I couldn't like it either. 314 is to nice.
There are plenty of dolls made to blink and they're arguably beautiful
666th like.
That “alarmingly laid back man” happens to me my grandfather!
Bryce Kunkel they are no different then regular gators they just have mutations. And gators don’t even mess with you unless they’ve been fed and are expecting food.
@@parkergibbons1473 mutations like laser eyes?
Why is this not the top comment for this video... make it happen...
May I know alarmingly laid back man's name?
And, does those mutated alligators have normal life?!
wow
I don't think I've laughed at a LWT skit harder than Felicity. It was so funny that she's laughing next to me right no-
Are you OK...is it Felicity...talk to-
What have you done to Felicity?
This place is held together with chewing gum, string, and paper clips.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
And tons of nuclear waste.
It is a great place to store nuclear waste. No earth quick, and concrete to seal it for millions of year.
John has suspicious amount of jokes on American Girl dolls. Someone on that writing team has a history...
It's Jodie, I bet it's Jodie.
😂
My favorite is Samantha the Victorian one.
Hope hes not a part of pedohollywood...
Same could be said about the number of jokes about horse beastiality.
Fun fact: That rocket (5:30) crashed since its accelerometer was literally installed upside down.
EDIT: First of all thanks for the responses. I have since been studying nuclear engineering in-depth and this piece does miss a few crucial details on nuclear waste. Firstly, a football stadium of nuclear waste from all nuclear power plants across the US over 50 years (providing 20% of clean, safe, non-intermittent energy) is actually remarkably little. I would say it is the necessary evil we need to overcome since at the end of the day nuclear power is a reliable source that is in most respects superior to conventional solar and wind.
In the long term, nuclear waste will not be an issue - rather a waste material we can reprocess and generate electricity from - fast breeder reactors.
It was also a Russian rocket
Boris had a little too much vodka during installation
Several of them, if I remember correctly.
This rocket (PROTON) is one of the worst rockets on the market. 1 out of 9 launches is a failure.
That's literally a space russian roulette.
@@khenricx
Hold on there comrade, the Proton is a fine piece of engineering.
13:13 Watching him act like that doll scared the shit out of him is so damn funny. It's really well edited too. His reaction has me in stitches every single time. If I watch it more than 3 times in a row, I can't breathe from how hard I'm laughing.
The visceral reaction took me OUT 😭🤣
If someone wants to solve the Cube John is holding, use this Scramble with yellow on top and red in front: B L R' B' F' D' .
Yes, we're bored and nerds.
"We were trying to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact: pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time."
Time really does fly, doesn't it.
"We were trying to defeat the Nazis, which fun fact: pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time"
i love john oliver
......at the time lol
Silver Legion wouldn't agree, though.
Plenty of Americans supported the nazis. The German American Bund, the silver legion, the friends of progress, and numerous others.
illyounotme what is the "Bellamy salute?"
The US alt right has sponsored most dictators and fascist states over the last 150 years...
Not a conspiracy theory when it's so blatant and obvious...
Why did we need 5 Sharknado movies when we have freakin radioactive alligators?
andrineslife that was my nickname in high school lol
5 sharknado movies, or freakin radioactive alligators?
you wanna get Gozillas? because this is how you get Gozillas
You clearly haven't seen Sharknado 4...
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Because they're not radioactive enough for it to matter?
THE TOXIC AVENGER: The first Avenger that plays League of Legends
He's the First Superhero from New Jersey
It’s been 5 years let’s get a certified John Oliver update on this topic!!!
Just want to point out that Yucca Mountain was something they had been working on for decades. It was a done deal and the entire industry was preparing for it. Then, when it was shut down, it was done so just before it was scheduled to start receiving waste. It was a major blow. I know this because my wife *is* a nuclear scientist who had to do PR work for the NRC trying to keep them from shutting it down.
As of writing this, Harry Reid passed away a couple of weeks ago, and while others hailed him for his work otherwise... I keep coming back to this video. Harry might have done a lot of good while in office... but he also did this.
Shutting it down "was a major blow" you say. A financial, egocentric blow, obviously. As in: Not in My Back Yard - unless it's very financially rewarding for me, my family and local residents. Ha!
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@@evukelectricvehicles no, as in a "we have nowhere safe and secure to put our nation's nuclear waste now" kind of major blow. Yucca Mountain WAS SAFE AND SECURE. The whole "not my backyard" movement is fueled by ignorance.
Nuclear waste, as of this writing, is currently just sitting in barrels on the grounds of nuclear plants. It is not secure at all and it is not a viable, long-term option.
@@Bakkerkid The storage may be secure but getting the waste there sure isn't
@@seeibe and you know this how?
As a working Civil Engineer I must say whoever came with the dumb idea to use wood as beams to hold up the tunnels either did that on purpose to cause danger or they are just that stupid. I did inspection for tunnels before and it's usually 13 inch+ walls with rebar everywhere.
Wow
I mean, to be fair I don’t think the designers thought there’s be in use even 15 years after they were built
@@giggabiite4417 agreed
a lot of the nuclear issue has been engineered by so called green movement people trying to scare people away from nuclear which the world should have 100% switched to as a temporary while switching to renewable. But groups like Greenpeace are more than a little intellectually challenged just look at the Greenpeace v Norman Borlaug fiasco in Africa. they claimed that the savior of a billion human lives across the globe, Father of the Green movement was trying to poison people and that is why we still have starvation in Africa because they didn't know he was the better party, just because he was a quiet savior and they a loud, stupid but well known group. Another great example of the stupidity of the Green movement is when Penn and Teller went to a green rally to gather signatures for the banning of the use of Dihydrogen monoxide and collected a hundred signatures within a short period of time. They didn't even lie about what it does or anything... and after people signed they told them that Dihydrogen monoxide is water.... something every high school graduate should know. so I guess the green movement is made up of dropouts, the dumb kind.
It was probably a cost-cutting measure by the contractor so he could keep more money.
3:39 fun fact, a not insignificant portion of americans supported what the nazis were doing.
People like Henry Ford, Allen Dulles and Prescott Bush for example.
@@lukasfriedrichbauer8320 I mean most Southern Americans did, but yes Henry ford hated jews
I think as far as dolls go, if one is staring at you, 'unblinking' is exactly what you want.
and when people started being against the nazis, it was for exactly the wrong reason
@Rick Vis there were quite a lot tbh
I've re-watched him screaming at Felicity 5 times now. So great, I'm almost cackling at work.
i hate that i literally have a felicity doll displayed in my room facing my bed
it's never too late to change your life
Fantastic
The moment you start noticing it moving from time to time, you gotta bury it deep underground or burn your house down
Burning her won't work, you invited her into your home,
She owns your soul...
Regift her to someone else, then shes someone else's problem
Drop it off at the white house.
I expected the video to end with Felicity inexplicably being present in the footage from the 70s and John Oliver screaming bloody murder. It didn't happen. I am disappointed.
eworm oooh nice..
John Oliver.... Hire this worm now.
eworm I agree.
The episode itself ends with John slowly brushing Felicity's hair and staring with a cold, dead look right into the camera.
"We were trying to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact: pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time."
Time really does fly, doesn't it.
@shocknot welll...
But the two A bombs we produced were used on the Empire of Japan.
I lived in New Jersey for the 1st 28 years of my life and I can confirm that maybe that nuclear waste dumping, would answer a lot of questions.
Well, we can't get any fast breeder reactors up so that we can burn the most radioactive waste like they do in France, then it wouldn't be a problem. Most of the waste is just disposable clothing. When you consider that America is covered in natural Uranium and Thorium deposits, nuclear waste doesn't seem all that deadly.
We need to keep the plants going, though, a lot of the "nuclear waste" is actually used in radiopharmaceuticals.
I bet they probably dropped some of that in Sussex county
"I'm not a nuclear scientist. I just have the face of one." - John Oliver, 2017
i fucking love him
HE JUST SAID THAT AS I WAS READING THE COMMENT
He is an idiot. Shame he couldn't actually do a bit of research (other than the research of boosting his ratings).
what proof do you have that he didn't do his research..?
lttexan Only idiot here is you buddy.
Nuclear waste can be recycled. France does it constantly
No one:
America: We measure how much nuclear waste we have using football fields.
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Most of it is just the disposable clothing they wear. Nuclear Power Plants are actually extremely efficient in regards to what you put in and get out of it as waste.
I guess John failed to read up on how large swathes of land in America is covered with natural uranium and thorium deposits. You can get a Geiger counter going over 100x background in the Colorado mountains.
Wait, so you're telling me that people in other places don't use eagles per cheeseburger to measure things?
Radioactive alligators sounds like a Dr. Evil request.
@575forza: Sharks that shoot radioactive laser beams from their eyes.
Is that really so much to ask?
I love when they can only get Dr. Evil mutated sea bass in instead of sharks, and he asks: "Are they ill-tempered?" lmfao
The felicity thing killed me
Cameron Reyno Felicity kills a lot of people.
Rip man wait what oh wait I've realised
Cameron Reyno I'm the kind of person who has all my American Girl dolls XD
Then again, I only have four, my grandparents gave them to the family, they've been handed down from my sisters, and they're way too expensive to just give away XD
It would have been funnier if doll suddenly appeared with the solved cube.
Looked like it damn near gave John a heart attack, too! o.o
As someone who lives relatively close to Hanford in Washington, this was very educational, thank you.
Fun fact: a football field, 20 feet high is not much, any mall is bigger than that.
Would you say a solid gold brick that is that big "is not much", too? When you're talking uranium, that is is an astronomical amount. Even microscopic amounts are enough to kill you.
@@AMortalDefiant Yeah, only if you are actually dumb enough to take a seat in a stadium filled with bare uranium. Don't forget that it is stored in concrete and kept in safehouses, which you can litteraly stand on top of without running the risk of getting a lethal dose of radiation. Nuclear power is the safest energy source bar none, even solar and wind kill more people during concstructiton and maintenance
I don’t get why Americans compare everything against a football field. I don’t know how big they are so my brain checks out when I hear that. I just assume the general point is that it’s alot.
Dear @@mardel1607 You could replace the phrase "lethal dose" with "any harmful dose"
@@mardel1607 Not if they blow up in your face buddy. If a solar power field or wind farm blows up, it's just some infrastructure loss and few lives lost. If a nuclear waste storage or reactor blew up for instance, it could be a goddamn catastrophic event, with repurcussions for centuries.
The procrastination in this country is impressive...
"Hm, we should prob deal with this... ehhh maybe later."
that's how they deal with EVERYTHING........
Tossing it in a big hole and forgetting about it is the best solution. Plus after 200 years even the highest levels of waste is as deadly as a banana.
@@VladLad I'm not sure where you got that information. Yes, bananas have plenty of K-40 (half-life = 1.25 billion years), though we have far, far more naturally occurring K-40 in our bones. I think you might be considering only two of the fission products, Cs-137 and Sr-90. But the 3 major players in the spent fuel rods are U-238, lower radioactivity, half-life = 4.5 billion years (about as long the Earth has existed); unspent U-235, higher radioactivity, half-life = 700,000 years; and Pu-239, very high radioactivity, half-life > 24,000 years. Some of the fission products will decay much faster, but the major players are there for the long haul. Ten half-lives is the standard for radioactive material to be disposed of, and for the major player, U-235, that's over 2 billion years. Oh yeah, the product of U-238 + 1 neutron is Pu-239. As U-235 decays, it provides neutrons for this reaction. (That's how we make Pu-239.) That's where the plutonium in the fuel rods comes from. It's a byproduct.
I do think underground storage is our best bet though.
"Nah... I think it's better to let my grand-kids fix it, when they are grown."
@@VladLad no, it's a terrible solution. Nuclear waste if concentrated in one place still can explode. There were incidents in USSR and USA.
Quick thing about the doll sidenote. For some reason back when I was about 5, some of my sister's old stuff was stored in my room to make room for more of her stuff, and I woke up one night to find the closet door open with one of those dolls staring at me. And for some reason right as I woke up and stared into its eyes, the eyelids fell shut.
I used a nightlight until I was 10 after that.
Oh no 😮😂😂
😖😂😂😂😂
Oooh, no. Don't like that... 😬
Some porcelain dolls have hinged eyelids
At least you can see the alligators coming in the middle of the night with them glowing eyes.
And then Deathclaws became a plausible spontaneous evolution...
To those commenting that he is bashing nuclear power, where does he do it? All I saw and heard was concern over storing the waste byproduct that is harmful to all forms of life. Seriously, where is is saying nuclear power is wrong? Link the timeframe if he did. If he didn't, stfu with the fake news.
Also, he shows a complete misunderstanding of nuclear power and radiation in the video.
He did not bash nuclear power. They are simply changing the subject, attempting obfuscation.
Jeremiah Rawson what was the misunderstanding of nuclear power? Link the timeframe.
The whole idea of the waste effects and health hazards of nuclear power. Not once did he distinguish alpha, beta, or gamma health effects and a lot of the health effects he described were gamma radiation. Most nuclear waste is alpha, which cannot go through paper and is only problematic if ingested. It also would not result in 4 toes or radiated alligators; but most likely result in death or cancer (in high amounts over a short period of time). It isn't going to irradiate alligators, turn you into the toxic avenger, etc. Also, as an alpha emitter it is perfectly fine being stored in a barrel, the spent rods are also perfectly fine being stored in water (They even have divers that do maintenance in some nuclear power plants). The whole thing is very very loosely based in any radiation science and is more of a hyperbole piece.
Ideally, he'd have the ability to do that, being thorough and factual while taking an in-depth look at this complex subject. However, this is a comedy show that's 20 minutes long. I don't think we can expect much more than it to be a show that begins discussion on the topic. Most people don't really think much about these issues until they're brought to light. American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Game of Thrones, the masses are easily enthralled. So presenting subject matter to them in a way that's appealing, so they'll take interest, sometimes requires it be mixed in with a lot of detritus. At least it's being discussed now?
I AM A WAKING NIGHTMARE!
"OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! FUCK ME! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" - John Oliver
Felicity Thomas The doll has taken human form! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
Dammit Felicity, get off my nightstand and go back to the attic, I'm trying to sleep.
Felicity Thomas 😱😱😱😱😱😱
Felicity!?! It's can't be you! I thought you were buried! Please! Have mercy! I didn't really mean tt bury you! HAVE MERCY!!!!!
Yucca Mountain always seemed like an odd place for a nuclear repository given the number of active fault lines in and near western Nevada. North Dakota would probably be the most logical place for this kind of site since it has very little seismic activity and an abundance of underground salt domes (which are ideal for nuclear waste storage)
You also have to bear in mind that Homer Simpson is in charge of safety for one of those nuclear power plants! Aiiihhh!
Why does America measure everything in football fields?
Edit: wow I did not expect this random comment to get this popular…
Lily H it's big enough to sound scary and pretty much everyone has seen one
We don't have a measurement system, we have sportball.
Lily H because we never learned the metric system
Lily H because fuck you that's why
"Billions of liters" Meh
"Enough to fill 20 football fields" OH SHIT!!!!
I live 41 miles downwind of Hanford. Every family I know has had multiple members go through cancer. I had Thyroid cancer at 34. EVERY single person that helped me in the hospital said they'd already had it. My sistern-in-law, who grew up closer to Hanford than me by about 15 - 20 miles, had Thyroid cancer in her early 20s. If you want to really dig up a mess, look in to the decades of families in Umatilla Oregon that have been trying to get medical assistance from the government and keep getting denied (I mean, maybe some aid has been awarded I'm not aware of, but no where near what their community deserves). A friend of mine worked for the state of Oregon in some fashion as an intern during law school, his summer job was literally to find a way to not admit huge volumes of radioactive material was leaking into the ground water when stacks of paper work clearly showed it was. You can see the bunkers pretty clearly on google maps, SW of Umatilla. They go on for miles. As I understand it, they're all exclusively for storing nuclear material.
I know zero people with thyroid cancer. I have never lived anywhere near a nuclear reactor or waste site.
You do know know nuclear waste from nuclear weapons is completely different from the waste nuclear plants make right? The liquid forms of the waste from those nuclear weapons production are the cause of all those people getting cancer in the Hanford site as well as the Savannah River. I'm really sorry to hear about all those people, including yourself, but it's not right to include nuclear plants in this issue since it has nothing to do with it.
Just as a counter anecdote, I've lived 30 miles from Hanford basically my whole life and I haven't known anyone who had/has thyroid cancer.
I have lived in Richland my whole life. I have never known someone younger than 60 with cancer. I never have heard that someone I knew with cancer got it from the Hanford site. No one who doesn't work at the Hanford site gets cancer because of the Hanford site, that is not a thing. The Columbia River is packed with people every summer. People get cancer here for the same reasons as everywhere else. I literally facepalmed at 11:11
Stop using person anecdotes, they don't help. What is the number of cancers in the population, compared to national averages accounting for life style choice like smoking. Account for the fat randomness clumps.
If you care about the issue, the is the logical way to get attention; otherwise the people you are trying to reach will, rightly so, just dismiss you anecdote.
UA-cam's most reccomended educational youtuber, Tom Scott made an interesting video about a massive underground nuclear waste storage site in Sweden I think that's worth checking out.
But storage is no longterm solution.
Methods for recycling and low-risk release back into nature are needed.
Also the channel by Kyle Hill does excellent coverage disproving the many myths about the danger of nuclear power and waste.
@@GTAVictor9128
Harrisburg, Tchernobyl, Fukushima. What can Kyle Hill say to remove these from history?
Never forget: _The big Mistake always sits in front of the device._ Always had.
That site where Scott visited is in Finland, not Sweden. It is called Onkalo.
Not gonna lie, I enjoy watching the Toxic Avenger series. It’s one of those “so bad it’s good” guilty pleasure movies, especially when he was in Tokyo.
I wouldnt even say "bad" considering the camp is all deliberate
Sgt. Kabuki Man NYPD running over that old lady always gets me.
"This is an American made car. Every time they flip 25 feet into the air and crash down, they blow up. Let's get out of here!"
It was just barely before my time, was that in the cartoon or was there a live action series as well? And how many films are there?
@@ApocalypticJoker I believe there were 5 films, but I had no idea about the cartoon.
"We rushed to develop nuclear weapons to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact, almost all Americans agreed were bad at the time"
Rek'd
@Fredrik Dunge I wish you were wrong
Fredrik Dunge You have to take the Anti war part out of that. Because you can agree that Nazis are bad and still be anti war. Almost all Americans agreed that Nazis were bad. American propaganda made sure of it. Plenty of people were still anti war but the reasoning wasnt "We don't think the Nazis are bad."
"Actually that consensus didn't come until the concentration camps were
liberated, before that there were plenty of anti war and even pro nazi
setiments in the US.
The US didn't enter ww2 because of the holocaust they did it for
geopolitical reasons."
Kinda missing the point, aren't you?
They Told Me I Could Become Anything, So I became an Eggplant You know thats exactly what Nazis thought about jews and homosexuals?
Geopolitical reasons, including "not having the world run by nazis", since the united states instituted a very comfy liberal order after it took over the world.
Lets build a wall, and make radioactive alligators pay for it!
WalkaCrookedLine: why don't we build "the" wall out of stacked-up spent nuclear waste barrels? Encased in concrete and stacked sideways. We can put a little flange on one side so they don't roll downhill. We wouldn't even have to "wire" them for extra security. The fear of the radiation should do the trick.
@@jilliansmith7123 damn! You have a very creative mind xD lol
@@jilliansmith7123 The irony is it would be pretty much harmless.
Ugh, as a nuclear professional, the shear misunderstanding in this piece infuriates me.
I've held off watching this video for years and honestly I still wish I never did. "So called spent fuel pools"? No, that IS what they are called. I've personally monitored 2 of them on a daily basis, walking around and under them, for years and worked at several more. They are by no means designed for "temporary storage" since "temporary" is ONLY for 100 years. The danger for a "spent fuel pool accident" is also ridiculous. The ability to strike and destroy a spent fuel pool inside the protection of a nuclear power plant is likely not even capable. That also ignores the fact that there are many, MANY procedures for any issue with the spent fuel pools including attack. Even I couldn't think of a way to do it with unlimited funds and my intimate knowledge.
Thankfully we do have dry cask storage now and those casks can literally take a freight train at full speed without losing integrity (I've seen the videos, they are pretty amazing). So the idea we have this tremendous amount of nuclear waste all over is kind of ridiculous. We should have a long term storage site, or sites, to put these casks, but there is no immediate crisis for it.
I just assumed Florida was already the Nuclear Toilet, I thought that was why Florida is so..... Florida.
Sir, wood rots, should we still build a nuclear shed with it?
Yup
But sir, I think it needs to last 240,000 years...
Don't worry guy, 40 years is like PRETTY close to that.
Don't worry I retire in 12 years and I'll be dead before any one learns that this is a bad idea
Yeah, and bill the government as if we made it out of concrete and titanium.
Look up "Dry Cask Storage", and you might add the name James Conca.
Steel bins in a heavy concrete shell, movable with heavy equipment and kept on a concrete slab.
What makes anybody think that either civilization or the human species has a better that 50% chance of surviving the next 1000 years?
Let alone the 24,000 year half-life of ²³⁹Pu.
Without global civilian nuclear, oceanic life as we know it will die. Carbon dioxide in the oceans is going to make calcium carbonate fixation by organisms at the base of the food chain, impossible. It becomes calcium bicarbonate, or rather the operations that would produce calcium carbonate simply manufacture two bicarbonate ions for every double-positive calcium ion in solution.
The fantasy of "renewable energy" has by now been as signally a failure as I knew it would when Germany's Energiewende was announced.
"The point is, we have a lot of nuclear waste, and it's very fun to play with!" - John Oliver, 2017
3:31 "the Nazis who, fun fact, pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time"
*checks date*
a week after the Charlottesville rally ... that hits hard
Recently I completed a short internship at a company which makes storage casks for spent nuclear fuel. Those things are near indescribable. You can hit it with a missile, a plane, or a truck and it is designed to be completely secure. I’m not joking about the missile. The company actually paid for the military to fire a missile at the cask to test it. Another thing is that these casks are SUPER heavy. They are large steel cylinders with a honeycomb type insert where the waste is placed. Once the cask is delivered to the site it is filled with a concrete ring between the honeycomb and the interior wall. At this point the whole thing is just too damn heavy to realistically transport any distance.
Just wanted to share some information to whoever is interested. I was just happy to know something about this topic.
PS while this information is true as far as I am a-where, I am not an engineer in the industry, just a short term intern so please take my comment with a grain of salt.
what is this company? I want to find out more.
It was quite a few years ago. I remember a scandal where they were transporting large amounts of nuclear waste. in casks similar to what you described on flat bed semi trucks. through the State of Idaho on interstate 84 and people were making a big stink about it.
I love how this show actually educates and informs people.
Sorry, Natalie, I'm a fan of John Oliver, but in this case it misinforms.
TL;DR : what's is real then ?
That's one sided propaganda, not education.
ThatsRight thats all bullshit. All he did to rebute was talk about how great nuclear energy is, but oliver wasnt talking about nulcear energy, he was talking about nuclear WASTE. Which nobody can deny, that the way we dispose of nuclear waste is an issue.
The video I linked discusses disposal of nuclear waste and how and where it should be done in the United States.
My late father was in demolition, blowing up buildings and bridges all over the world. He loved telling stories and I remember one that scared the shit out of me. He was given a no bid contract to blow up an old nuclear smokestack or something. It was a huge project that would take forever to type the whole thing out. He submitted his estimate but never heard back. He wanted to know what the hell was going on so he asked around. He found out that the government decided to instead hire a tree stump blaster who came and stood on the bed of his truck to drill holes in the side and then threw some dynamite in there and blow it up, basically sending millions of bits of Radioactive dust in the air which then blew in the direction of Hanford! Not sure how much of this story is true cause my dad likes to bullshit but he was probably telling the truth because he wasn’t laughing at all.
Radioactive Alligators... pretty soon we’ll have SCP-682 in our hands, and that’s gonna be a shitshow
$700 billion on Afghanistan. Wonder what we could have spent that on...
@Jesper Rolleman Please provide a link if you find it
25,350 schools, for starters.
Actually the fund to deal with nuclear waste is already too big. The trust is already something like $30-40 Billion. They've stopped requiring companies who run nuclear power plants from having to pay into it. At a modest interest rate it's more money than would ever be needed. Really, nuclear waste isn't that hard to deal with. All the engineering problems have been solved. And indeed the Yucca mountain facility is essentially ready to go and has enough room for like, 1,000 years worth of waste from nuclear power production.
So, no Chernobyl Disneyland for 240,000 years? FML.
Bummer.
LOL
It could be done sooner. Plutonium is mostly hazardous due to heavy metal toxicity, rather than radiation, as are most of the really high level fission products. As a result, if the visitors were kept in HEPA filtered positive pressure environments and took dust precautions (tyvek suits, respirators) to avoid inhalation or ingestion of waste, it could be done in a few hundred years.
I recommend Fallout 4 till then
that is if they stop using nuclear power today. by the year 242 017 the world should be able to shoot the fcking nuclear waste to space. Make the space coaster, and put some fuel, and wings on the barrels.. shoot all of it into the sun.
Oh my gosh I’m laughing so hard right now. I saw The Toxic Avenger on Theater Mode from Achievement Hunter! I died when the trailer started 🤣 because I was like, “wait, I know that movie!!!”
Good god, an actual First member/Sponsor
Quick note on the rocket at about 5:30: that video is from the launch of a russian Proton rocket. It flew off course because some of it’s sensors were installed upside down, apparently using a hammer to fit them into place in a way they weren’t designed for.
My sister has American Girl dolls.... 34 of them. Send Help
Just change the position of one of them every week randomly and report the results ;)
Just move.
Chloee Inkling that’s about $7000 of dolls. I think it’s your parents that need help.
I have5 here after my daughter moved out after graduation from university were should I send them.
Talky Tina doesn't like you.
He didn't bash nuclear energy, he bashed how we're not dealing with the waste properly. Jeeze, it's like a get together of the Children of Atom in the comments.
His script sounds like it was written by a pseudo-science anti-nuclear group like Green Peace or Friends Of The Earth, which do want to ban nuclear power. The purpose of these false claims is to convince the public to be anti-nuclear power. Practically all of John's claims about the harms from radiation are just wrong - blown wildly out of proportion.
EnlightenmentLiberal An analogy: If I told you to throw away the orange peels after eating the fruit, would you think I was against oranges? You need prayers.
*ATOM WILL SHEILD US FROM HIS G L O W*
Riasiru Neovas there was balance in the piece. Completely one sided pseudo-science at best. But hey...they did spend two whole weeks preparing this piece...they are the experts now 👎
Hahahah! You're so right!
"the situation", someone needs to make this doc
the clarinetjo odds and ends Should be fun when sea rise reaches the plants.
I’m going to use this clip as a talking point next time I teach about nuclear power. Great work!
5:27 Okay... who recorded me playing kerbal space program? -_-
huh
i didnt
S🅱️inotto watches LWT. 😯
I don't think that was the sound of a crank, it was the sound of a Geiger counter...
As accurate as this is, its scary to me that despite nuclear power being far less dangerous and far cleaner (still not clean or dangerous by any measure, but still the best on a global scal ) we dont have the same attitude to other sources of energy that are even more dangerous and are affecting us right now. Responsible Nuclear power plants in the US right now present no danger until an accident happens which is rare. Other forms of power, regardless of how responsible the people running them are, still pollute and produce more waste and make more land unusable than nuclear power. (Namely coal, oil, and natural gas mining.)
I see so many shortsighted and naive opinions on nuclear power, like yours. Its infuriating really
@@jeffsmith9351 You call the user's "opinion"... "shortsighted and naive", but honestly, the user's comment is mostly truth by logic, and hardly a subjective statement. I'm going to call it, and say that you just made a comment turducken. Just saying.......
@@JarretLaMark your simple mind can hardly even grasp your inferiority
@@jeffsmith9351 ??
6:21 *Florida intensifies*
The American Girl thing is legit, Samantha haunted my nightmares for about two years before I finally managed to give her to my cousin
Damn you, Felicity!
Gilmore Guirao
no icebreaker like a pocessed doll XD helped take the edge off of learning about radiation
It's weird watching this and looking out my window at Hanford. Nestled right along the Columbia only a few miles away
Wait…ALL the nuclear waste in the COUNTRY could fit in a 20 ft x football field size area? That’s shockingly small. I’m surprised.
You should look into how France recycles a majority of there spent fuel cells and has less nuclear waste.
oh but that costs money! If they did that, then they couldn't claim nuclear power's cheaper than solar
What do u mean? In la Hague France radioactive waste is pumped into the ocean because its illegal to drop it from a ship. Greenpeace showed how easy it would be to reach for a terrorist attack multiple times in Europe. France sends a part of "recycling" waste i to Russia wehre it is stored outside in a populated area. They say its a recycling circle but it is just PR. The Plutonium is used in MOX because they had something to do with it but its more costly and less efficient than regular fuel pellets. By the way MOX creates its nuclear chain reaction by itself and is way more dangerous. Pease for god sake when u say something about a topic this toxic u get your sources right thank you.
Both doc are German if there is the demand i translate them.
Greenpeace entering example in France ua-cam.com/video/d0fdUpuMxjk/v-deo.html
La Hague France: ua-cam.com/video/XEr9Sk9BGIY/v-deo.html
Same doc but complete: ua-cam.com/video/dIq2KxeInxM/v-deo.html
At 1:09:50 there is a short english part wehre u see how radioactive wast from Europe is stored outside in Tomsk Russia
Memento Mortis, if Greepeace said something you know its false. They are 100% liars 100% of the time.
Russia has plenty of places for storage, including in areas where spills have already occured and they are exclusion zone (like chenobyl).
The US government made recycling spent fuel rods illegal decades ago for political reasons. This entire nuclear waste problem is 100% the result of the utterly inept US government.
James Dickinson France has clean nuclear energy that protects humans and earth from global warming - a REAl danger. This is fossil fuel propaganda. How much did they pay Oliver for this garbage? China is going all nuclear. S. Korea is 75% nuclear with no harm. Many other countries going nuclear, even oil countries. This is pure fossil fuel propaganda from Oliver.
The reason you could never solve that rubik's cube is because it is in an invalid position. I was checking the corner parity of the cube when I realized the Green-White-Orange corner is adjacent to the White, Green, and Orange center squares, but if you imagine rotating the corner either 120° clockwise or counterclockwise, all three of those imagined positions can't line up with the center squares. You'd need to mirror the corner across Green and White, which is obviously impossible.
While this wouldn't affect the reason this is invalid, he made only five of the six sides visible in the video when he had it out, so I had to infer what the remaining side looked like. There's only two configurations where all corners and edges are unique, swapping the blue-orange edge with the yellow-orange edge. Neither of these are valid cube positions because of the above mirrored corner problem.
I used frame advance to get each side.
If you call the front face the one with
GYY
RRR
RGO
the unknown side to the left is either of these
RYR RBR
BBY YBY
GYY GYY
Top face
BBY
OYO
WGG
Bottom face
BRW
BWG
YRG
Right face
RYO
WGG
BWW
Back face
BWW
OOO
OBO
· 0xFFF1
You just taught me how to solve a Rubik's cube in a John Oliver comment section...
I don't know what to feel about...
So Thank you very much, I guess.
How did I teach you? I don't even know how.
@· 0xFFF121, the position is valid and can be solved. You need to adjust the contrast or hue settings on your monitor as you got a couple of colors wrong:
The top slice of what you called the right face is RWO and the bottom slice of the back face is RBO.
Therefore, the left face is:
RYO
BBY
GYY
The left face can actually be seen for some frames and you can see many of the colors.
TwistyPuzzle's user Skarabajo confirmed this on this post: twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=369111#p369111
He also pointed out the algorithm for generating this position.
Jarvis Webster
No, the colors are fine, (and I'm not colorblind) I looked at it again, and you're right. It was simply a transcription error when I was putting everything into the tool I was using to calculate a solution. I had already spent upwards of an hour writing a stupid youtube comment, so I didn't want to recheck all the squares again. But I did check for frames that contained the left side and I definitely couldn't find any (other than perhaps the motion blur for the first few frames when he was first taking it out) Are you not getting motion blur when you frame advance this video?
Can you upload his attachments to somewhere else for me? I don't want to bother registering an account I definitely will never use just to see a single post's attachment.
· 0xFFF1 Throw the Rubix cube away!
The way that woman talks about contaminating a large portion of the Earth with radioactive material in a total deadpan, with images of rockets exploding in the background, is always so funny to me.
John Oliver is a national treasure
Jersey shore makes so much more sense now.
Meanwhile in france we store every nuclar waste in a site few kilometers underground since at least 50 years...
by the way if cattenom blows up I am sure central europe , scandinavia ,and eastern europe will come to france and have a small argument about how many thousand years your country will be enslaved in order to clean the shit up ... greetings from the french-german border (Don´t take it to hard but most of france nuclear powerplants are ticking time bombs)
Yeah, while listening to John, i was thinking "But aren't we already doing that shit for decades??" Well, we're still ahead of the U.S. for some things!
France isn't a geologically active zone, so, our powerplants are quite safe... But, they weren't made to last that long.. True... But we don't really have more efficient and cheap way to produce energy, and i guess it's still better than your German coal powerplants that intoxicate our air when the wind goes South-West...
Kaffohrt Kaffi while America has lit dynamite laying on the floor
And I high doubt it drives in unmarked trucks through Paris and other larger cities. And although the current proposed bill says "The Las Vegas metropolitan area should be avoided at all practical coasts." What about Reno, or the rest of Nevada? Or the rest of the country.
The point of putting the waste a few kilometers underground is so that earthquakes and volcanoes don't have as much of an effect, and even if something happens that deep, it's more likely to just seep down (where there's already a lot of naturally occurring radioactivity) rather than come up and contaminate water and soil. Plus, looking at IAEA inspection reports, Cattenom seems to have well functioning safety systems, and being in France, isn't very likely to experience much in the way of natural disasters to cause a meltdown.
6 years later, still not solved.
Anyone else get chills when the reporter said waiting until a crisis appears to deal with problems? Let's jump to 2020 shall we?
I love this show, but why are so many episodes geoblocked? I don't live in Narnia guys, seriously.
censorship
Get a VPN
I realize this comment is a year ago but I've been binging old episodes.
Most geoblocking is due to an entity within the local country buying up the rights to a certain program and deciding not to make it available for streaming. It's basically a distribution contract. I'm sure HBO would love to have everyone watching all of their shows but chances are AT&T/Time Warner made a deal they have to abide by somewhere down the line.
Yes, I can't watch some videos of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in my Home country
Because its on HBO
...can't stop watching this program,wonderful mesh of horror and comedy, much like our lives.
i love you John Oliver. you helped me to get through 2020.
@johnoliver
You should do a new 2023 segment on this and follow up with current updates. I love your work. Your writing staff and your mind are just fantastic.🤙
Can't WAIT to see Felicity in my nightmares! #DamnYouOliver
i'm currently seeing alex jones in MY nightmares
@@mysticseer6424 I'll grant you that one, dude. That sounds fucking horrifying.
Washington...Vegas...Boston...
War, war never changes
Kristie Beasley but why tho
HoibotPlays Fallout
HoibotPlays fallout has been preparing us for this moment
Ill be waiting for some super mutants and a Capital Wasteland
HoibotPlays What about LA, Bakersfield and Mariposa?
That last line was epic that's the way to bring it all around!
Now I'm scared because one of those yellow powerplant dots was literally right in my town.
"Ugly 'till i's cute again"
See? Looking into the mirror for that morning affirmation can provide loads of inspiration, John!
That Felicity gag just killed me. Or maybe Felicity did and this is my ghost writing this...
Plot twist: it's actually Felicity writing the comment...
@@JonasDAtlas it's also Felicity who is standing behind you.
fun fact: the government hired an engineering/management company to oversee the maintenance contract for Hanford, WA. This company had the contract for DECADES to maintain a subterranean concrete vaulted storage facility with nuclear waste. The vault was made with timber, not concrete. Two years ago this company merged with another engineering company to become the largest engineering firm in the world, worth $10 Billion.
Kyle Hill has a video that goes into detail about the solution to nuclear waste, titled "We solved nuclear waste decades ago" and its worth watching to get the scientific side of the story. I like the show and John in general but the info in this episode isn't showing the whole picture.
I thought we already designated New Jersey as a dumping ground for waste?
Even if the Yucca mountain storage facility is opened for storage, we'll spend years getting approval to transport the waste. I'm pretty sure plenty of towns will protest any route that gets close to their towns. And there is the matter of a transport vehicle. The government need approval or develop a lot of vehicles.
Already developed specialty made train cars. Yes, people did complain my state was one of the proposed paths.
subitman12 the government (I really tried finding the law) is oddly enough allowed to transport it secretly. Super strange but it’s totally legal and has some valid points I guess. Their allowed to say its national security, they are allowed access to any public highways, most of Nevada is govt owned and it’s all because: assuming the government doesn’t want it’s own citizens to die, they know best if it is safe compared to citizens who aren’t up to date on their nuclear safety. I’ve had to deal with the DoE and taken nuclear safety: they take it uber seriously.
Jack Sparrow, I said people in my state, not myself complained. I'm fine with the train. I was unaware of the truck transport and not familiar with.
You know, that’s not actually that much waste
Thank you for showing your sources on screen, Im currently writing a paper on this topic
i love how murica uses football fields as a measure of surface: i propose standardization of the paper sheet to 0.0000341 football fields. who is for ?
Don't forget the... Watermark!
✋
I think it would be roughly .000001 actually
Y'know, Brits do that too, only they're using longer fields! I think we should stick to proper length measures - the SI units. I feel like I'm being talked down too whenever anyone uses a football field (or pitch) as a unit of measure.
Also here in Italy it's almost the same. We also make height comparisons using "n-storey buildings" as units (eg the Tyrannosaurus Rex used to be as tall as a 2-storey building)
His reaction from the doll made me laugh and how he shooed her away XD
His reaction, calling "f&cking Christ" made me report him
Fuck Christ he's not even real.