The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste

What if we could actually USE nuclear waste? Check out Storyblocks and sign up here for great footage: Subscribe to support optimistic tech content: Watch Johnny’s explainer on nuclear power here - and subscribe to his channel! Nuclear waste is scary. Maybe you’ve seen it as glowing green goop in The Simpsons, or as a radioactive threat on the news. Either way, you likely know it has been a major block to the use and improvement of nuclear power. Over the last few decades, experts, politicians and the public have had heated debates over what to do with this radioactive material created by nuclear power plants. But what if there were a way to not just store nuclear waste, but actually USE it? This video is about the effort to make electricity out of nuclear waste. Really. It turns out, we developed the tools to do this decades ago. This story is about