Here's Some Nuclear Waste Just Cruising Through a Neighborhood

It can't just teleport out of the power plant, after all.


When a nuclear power plant generates waste—whether spent fuel, contaminated cooling water, or old reactor parts—you have to get rid of it. And while burying it is not a perfect solution, it's the best one we have right now. But just don't forget that the waste has to get from the plant to the burial site somehow. That method is by truck, maybe even right through your neighborhood.

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A fellow named Robert was lucky enough to spot this exact process when a convoy transporting nuclear waste got stuck waiting at some train tracks. Not surprising that it would, considering the whole thing is ridiculously long. Robert took the opportunity to take a quick video, which lays bare exactly how much of an operation this transport is.

Class C waste, as the payload on this truck is listed, is a low-level waste, which means it is not anything as serious as spent nuclear fuel. But of the low-level wastes, Class C is the most radioactive and still requires burial at a significant depth. Too bad we can't just launch it into the sun.

Source: Robert via Reddit, Digg

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