S3 E7: Half-Life

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Jun 28, 202226:50Science & Medicine

The aftermath of SL-1 highlighted a problem that we still haven’t solved, despite decades of searching for a solution: what to do with the waste. Our plans to store nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain in Nevada fell thro...

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