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Nuclear Waste Series - 2: Yucca Mountain and Geological Repositories

In this video I discuss the potential to dispose of nuclear waste underground in geological repositories in various forms. In particular, I discuss how long we need to store the waste before it reaches safe levels of radioactivity, and how much radiation dose the public would receive if events such as volcanoes, earthquakes, or groundwater corrosion distributed radioisotopes in the spent fuel. I discuss options including the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, a mined geological repository, and dive into the politics, dose limits, and safety studies that have been performed for Yucca Mountain. I discuss several other potential geological disposal options, such as deep borehole disposal, ice sheet disposal, and what would happen if you disposed of the waste in a random, non-ideal location with absolutely no containment structures.