Nuclear waste is not the problem you've been made to believe it is

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"... like wealth distribution, the highest 3% is the most toxic" ... 😂🤣 LOVE it!

"Think of fuel rods like world leaders, but a bit more reliable". SHOTS FIRED!

The biggest dissapointing fact about nuclear waste, is that eating it won't give me superpowers.

I love your dry humor 🙂 "Don't eat used fuel rods" and "all the passengers would be dead"

"And pray that shit dilutes quickly", oh God that is why I love you Sabine. You've solidified my opinion on the subject thank you so much.

The dry storage has nothing on the dryness of your humour and I love it ❤️

Came for the nuclear waste education, stayed for the jokes.

You are my favorite physicist by far on YouTube, the most genuine. What I don't understand, when people talk about the cost of a nuclear plant, is why the storage cost of nuclear waste is never included.

Ah, straight laced German humour with efficient scientific delivery. Love it. Subscribed

I love how you sneak physics into your comedy routines.

Findings from Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl on people and animals exposed to low level radiation shows that instances of cancer are markedly reduced, this is also true of people living on Granite deposits (Granite emits low level radiation) such as Cornwall.

Thank you, Sabine! This American absolutely loves your sense of humor to go along with your discourse! Keep it up, all of us interested enjoy your videos. I will stop by occasionally.

I can personally testify that the vast majority (I guess 90%) is not that bad. I used to work at an environmental analytical lab, and we got weekly samples of effluent and reaction slurry to run tests on, which I conducted myself. The effluent doesn't even register on the Geiger counter if you don't integrate over a day or two. I wouldn't use it to make coffee every day, but I'd rather take a bath in it than spend a day on the beach without sunscreen. The slurry had detectable radiation and other hazardous properties (BOD for example, but not as much as a blenderized sandwich after a warm day). Even that, though, the storage and waste protocols were a tad overkill in that they needlessly turned equipment and materials into low grade waste, which were in fact safe to just throw away. If I contrast those samples with the other samples I came across, there is no contest about which is more dangerous. It's the industrial and mining byproducts, by far. My workload was dominated by cyanides, [C/N]BOD, MBAS (surfactants), and flashpoints, so the big alarm bell is the cyanides. Cyanide is used in some mining and refining processes to chelate certain metal ions, and just a few grams of the solid waste products will kill you dead at several meters away under acidic conditions. They had to be diluted thousands of times just to get a result on our analytical curve, and I ended up just throwing the glassware it touched away. Distilling those samples was scary af. We called it "glass candy" because it kinda looked like chocolate fudge with shards of iridescent glass all through it, and I hope I never see it again.

“Please, do not eat used nuclear fuel rods”. Thanks for the heads up 🙌

I've been hooked on your video since the first one the amount of information that you deliver is phenomenal and your sense of humor is hysterical much appreciated

"Close the window and hope the shit dissipates quickly" Sabine.

I couldn't help but laugh out loud with "the higher 3% are the most toxic". Please keep adding this hidden gems while sharing these very interesting topics with us.

The evolution of Sabine's humor has been one of the best things science youtube ever produced.

And people say german humour wouldn't be funny