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Turning Nuclear Waste Into the World's Longest-Lasting Battery

  • Stephen McBride
  • 1 day ago
  • 1 min read

America spent decades and billions of dollars trying to figure out where to bury its spent nuclear fuel. Stafford Sheehan wants to dig it all back up.

 

He says the 95,000 tons of nuclear “waste” sitting in casks across the US is actually America’s largest untapped strategic energy reserve.

 

I recently caught up with Stafford to see how his company, Project Omega, is turning that stockpile into fuel, medical isotopes, and batteries that run for 30 years.

 

Click the image to watch my interview with Stafford Sheehan.
Click the image to watch my interview with Stafford Sheehan.

In our interview you’ll hear:

 

  • Why spent fuel still has 95% of its energy (4:15)

  • How America can revive nuclear power (18:25)

  • What America can learn from France (29:04)

  • Could nuclear batteries replace lithium-ion? (42:20)

  • What a future powered by nuclear waste looks like (44:50)

 

 

—Stephen McBride


Stephen McBride is a co-founder of the Rational Optimist Society.


 
 
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