TIL: Nuclear Waste Could Power the World for 72 Years | Today I Learned

something that was so surprising to me
when I started thinking about nuclear
waste was the amount of energy that’s
left in it so you could take all 270,000
metric tons of nuclear waste that exists
worldwide and you could turn that into
enough electricity to power the entire
world for 72 years even taking into
account increasing energy demand so it’s
just staggering and I think that we can
start thinking of this nuclear waste as
a resource to be tapped
rather than a liability that we need to
sweep under the rug