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37: Loving Toxicity, Future Warnings, and Better Burials

Let's Learn Everything!

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How Long Will It Take for Nuclear Waste to Break Down?

Carol Costello: The isolation plant is a pretty interesting feat and impressive feat of engineering, but we're looking at a different problem today. By roughly 2035, this facility will be full. After which the storage spaces will be collapsed and sealed with 13 layers of concrete and soil. How are we going to warn these people about the changes that lie at this site and others like it?Costello: It's also like a question of how do we tell them without making it appealing? And you know what? You hit on such an interesting point there.

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