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Can Plasma Break Down Nuclear Waste? No. But It Can Turn It Into Glass.
Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: can plasma break down nuclear waste? A viewer on LinkedIn asked. The literal answer is no. The useful answer is that plasma is one of the top solutions for what we CAN do with it: turn it into glass.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 The question from LinkedIn
00:13 Quick intro, Greg Friedman, plasma bioengineer
00:30 The question in full: can plasma break down nuclear waste?
00:39 The sun analogy: pile any junk under a real thermonuclear plasma and it burns
00:53 Thermonuclear plasma on Earth: tokamaks at 100s of millions of degrees
01:17 Can you drive to Princeton with a…
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