#Nuclear waste

[televisionsclera]

i remade the long-term nuclear waste warning zine that i made this summer

[rupertbbare]

Runit Dome. Concrete sarcophagus containing 73,000 cubic meters of radioactive debris from 68 nuclear detonations and biological warfare remains on Marshall Islands.

[bugsiover]

[rhaenyrastormborn]

memory is a monster

the mountain goats/waste isolation pilot plant warning/john irving/allison meir/waste isolation pilot plant warning/arthur miller/the mountain goats

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Several First Nations and environment advocates are criticizing a decision by Canada’s nuclear regulator to greenlight a proposed nuclear waste site near the Ottawa River. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has, following an environmental assessment, authorized construction of a waste facility on the site of the Crown-owned Chalk River Laboratories, which tests nuclear technology in Deep River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa. The site sits within a kilometre of the Ottawa River, on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg peoples.

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[wikipediapictures]

Asse II mine

[ontarom]

I'm sincerely fascinated by everything related to long term nuclear waste storage warning systems. Like if they made merch I'd be SO hyped up about it.

Like if they made a funko pop like this:

i'd buy it

[nearlydark]

Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

[sweetmeatdale]

I feel like the sign hanging above really sells it

[gennsoup]

"You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's all full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hangin' about for millions of years."

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

[bobdobalina]

Thanks to the Wikipedia article on Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, lots of people know the "THIS PLACE IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR" quote, but it occurred to me to look up the original document that it comes from, the 1993 report "Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant," by Trauth, Hora, & Guzowski of Sandia National Laboratories... and the whole thing is pretty fascinating.

Specifically, the famous quote and the pages above all come from the sub-report by "Team A," consisting of Dieter G. Ast (Cornell University), Michael Brill (Buffalo Organization for Social and Technological Innovation), Maureen F. Kaplan (Eastern Research Group), Ward H. Goodenough (University of Pennsylvania), Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), and Woodruff T. Sullivan, III (University of Washington). "Team B," I was surprised to notice, included astronomer Frank Drake (creator of the Drake Equation for estimating the changes of contacting extraterrestrial life).

The diagrams of possible construction options look a little bit like architectural plans, but also quite a bit like Dungeons & Dragons environment designs... and perhaps like the ruined architecture of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

[workersolidarity]

☢️ Today, on August 24th, 2023, Japan will be releasing over 1 Million Metric Tons of Radioactive waste water from the destroyed Fukushima Nuclear Reactor into the Pacific Ocean ☢️

[maniakmonkey]

Just a little harmless treasure hunting in my Apocalypse AU.

[lost-carcosa]

[thrown-away-opinions]

This guy's one video about how safe and clean nuclear energy is will do more good for the world than every electric car that's been made or will ever be made.

[mapsontheweb]

Main alleged nuclear waste sites and uranium deposits in Somalia