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So people, for instance, just to gross you out for a second, had cesspools of human waste in their basement.
And so, in fact, they concocted a couple of early, you know, founding public-health interventions in the system of the city, one of which was called the "Nuisances Act," which they got everybody as far as they could to empty out their cesspools and just pour all that waste into the river.
It’s a dangerous journey that takes five days, precious time he doesn’t have to waste.
This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.
So today, we pump millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air, we dump plastics, fertilizers and industrial waste into the rivers and oceans, and we cut down forests that absorb CO2.
What a waste of a life."
The waterproofing is done perfectly, better than our city contractors, because not a single drop should go waste in this.
But if you wanted to know what the perfect energy source is, the perfect energy source is one that doesn't take up much space, has a virtually inexhaustible supply, is safe, doesn't put any carbon into the atmosphere, doesn't leave any long-lived radioactive waste: it's fusion.
How much stuff goes through your life, how much waste is left behind you.
It was a waste of O2.
And if you've been in that part of the country, this is what those piles of burning, smoldering coal waste look like.
Who's going to guarantee something that is literally billions of times larger than any type of waste you think of in terms of nuclear or other things?
And then what do you do with the waste?
You actually burn up the waste, and you can actually use as fuel all the leftover waste from today's reactors.
CA: It's a nuclear power plant that is its own waste disposal solution.
So the thing that's been a problem from those reactors is actually what gets fed into ours, and you're reducing the volume of the waste quite dramatically as you're going through this process.
So if you lose that precious resource, where you are somewhat equal to the richer countries, that's a huge waste.
"We're so far out, the waste from our fish gets distributed, not concentrated."
They are now a great example of how, when countries purify waste water to drinking standards, they can ease their water shortages, and in Namibia's case, provide drinking water for more than 300,000 citizens in its capital city.
Records that have become cultural waste.
It is a little bit like having a waste treatment plant right next to an amusement park ... Bad zoning, but ..." (Laughter) She's like, "What?"
In the middle, we have a huge group of five billion, but here we can see you will have electric light, most likely; you will no longer sleep on the floor; you will store your salt in a container; you will have more than one spoon; you will have more than one pen; the ceiling is no longer leaking that much; you will have shoes; you might have a phone, toys, and produce waste.
Humans have produced over eight trillion kilograms of plastic, most of it still here as waste.
Now, from an environmental standpoint, the main thing you want to look at is what happens to the waste from nuclear and from coal, the two major sources of electricity.
Then what happens to the waste?
The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the reactor site because most places don't have underground storage yet.
If we build all these nuclear power plants, all that waste is going to be on hundreds, if not thousands, of trucks and trains, moving through this country every day.
And the fact is, we're going to use the nuclear waste we have for fuel in the fourth generation of reactors that are coming along.
Why don't you teach them not to waste money?
I'm not going to see you waste a penny."
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