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Staving Off Extinction: Bret Speaks with Konstantin Kisin

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Is That Really the Worst Place on Earth?

Spent fuel from nuclear power plants is stored on sight. The stuff has to be actively cooled for five years after coming out of the reactors. It contains plutonium, with the 200 thous in your half life,. Really dangerous stuff. And it will all be liberated into the atmosphere if it catches fire. We're talking about a sum of money that has been estimated as something like equivalent to a b two boer, right? Stealth bomer. That's not a lot of money. You could tax the rich, you could tax the middle class, and you could come up with that kind of money, and nobody would notice it. But we don't do it because people who are managing our

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