Jan 9, 2026 - Nuclear Waste: Turning 1,000,000 Years into 800?
I visited a decommissioned nuclear power plant, which is located next to an interim storage facility for radioactive nuclear waste. Originally, the plan was to find a final repository by 2031. However, a new report now suggests that we likely won`t find a site until 2074. But there are other ideas regarding what should happen to the nuclear waste—specifically, electrochemical reprocessing and reprocessing using particle accelerators. This is known as partitioning and transmutation. Today, I`m looking at the start-up Transmutex. They want to build reprocessing plants at the sites of old nuclear power stations which, according to Transmutex, would allow the waste to decay 40,000 times faster and reduce its volume by 89%. In this video, I`ll examine how the whole process is supposed to work, what the challenges are, and why the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) classifies the project as impossible.
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