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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What self-driving cars can learn from brainless slime mold
- Season 1 NASA's InSight spacecraft just launched to Mars
- Season 1 Testing the limits of human vision
- Season 1 Blood types are a 20-million-year mystery
- Season 1 Bees are going extinct...but not the ones you think
- Season 1 How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi
- Season 1 The microbial truth of how your cheese gets made
- Season 1 How this 50-year-old NASA material could kill cancer
- Season 1 Inside a volcano scientist’s campaign for Congress
- Season 1 Test firing a new rocket engine (and watching it explode)
- Season 1 Your old phone is a veritable gold mine
- Season 1 Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet
- Season 1 Why wildfire season never stops
- Season 1 How NYC plans to survive the next superstorm
- Season 1 This monster plant is trying to take over. What if we let it?
- Season 1 Why Tesla is building city-sized batteries
- Season 1 88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
Verge Science - Season 1 Episode 17 88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
0.00 48 minutes The United States produces 2,200 tons of nuclear waste each year…and no one knows what to do with it. The federal government has long promised, but never delivered, a safe place for nuclear power plants to store their spent fuel. This means that radioactive waste is piling up all over the country. We visited one of the worst places where the waste is stuck: a beachside power plant uncomfortably close to both San Diego and Los Angeles. And we asked the people in charge of the waste there: what happens now?
