THE VIDEO SHELF · nuclear waste storage
These tunnels are designed for 100,000 years
Tom Scott visits Onkalo in Finland, the planned deep geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste intended to be sealed for 100,000 years.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended in nuclear waste threads as a short, clear look at a real long-term storage solution.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tom Scott
- Topic
- nuclear waste storage
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Yes, I was really disheartened when I learned that my city only recycles a few types of plastic, and most of it just goes to the landfill. And now its being theorized that oil industries encouraged recycling as a solution, even knowing its deficiencies, so …
caddywompus on Hacker News · 2021-06
In Portable nuclear reactor program sparks controversyTom Scott has a great video[0] about the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland[1], in which he talks about one of the reasons that they decided on the particular area - why would anyone dig there? Skip to 4:29 in the video for the …
Nannooskeeska on Hacker News · 2022-08
In The messages that survived civilisation's collapse
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