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We Have Concerns

A Glass Half Foul

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment? It isn’t easy, but a researcher has discovered ways to immobilize such waste – the offshoot of decades of nuclear weapons production – in glass and ceramics. Jeff and Anthony discuss the idea of glass harnessing nuclear waste, and what that might mean for the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's fair to say that I don't know a lot of things, and one of the things that I know the least about is money.

0:04.6

Yeah, you're terrible with that.

0:06.5

I am so bad at it. How do you make it? What do you do with it?

0:09.6

Luckily, we have set up a service which allows you to help us get the resources we need to run the show

0:15.3

without having to know about things like advertising and ROI and quarterly reports.

0:21.1

Oh, I just fell asleep. Listen to you.

0:23.1

Yeah, I don't even know what money is.

0:24.7

But like, listen, you get stuff out of it too, like bonus episodes, early episodes, and monthly patron hangouts.

0:31.9

So if you want a little something and you want to help us, be idiots professionally for a little bit longer, patreon.com slash we have concerns.

0:38.3

It's gonna be amazing. It won't do it. Yeah, it's coming out in like three months.

0:56.8

Yeah, this is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff Canada.

1:02.6

Hi, Anthony Carbone. Hello, concerned citizen.

1:05.7

New clear waste. It's a problem.

1:10.1

It's a problem. I don't know. I haven't heard much about it since the 80s.

1:13.8

So I feel like it's not a problem anymore. No, I think we probably got rid of it.

1:17.6

Yeah, we haven't changed climate change has gone, right?

1:19.9

We've done buried it. We've done buried it under the ice and guess what's going away?

1:23.7

The ice. Oh, what about the thing? The thing lives under the ice.

1:30.2

It does. It will also be unleashed upon us, probably affected by the radioactive material.

1:34.6

So it's going to kill the ice, but not the thing.

1:36.8

No, the thing will live on and it will.

1:40.8

The thing will always live on. The thing will is part of all of us really, and it may look like all of us eventually.

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