#Nuclear waste

[atomicastrid]

Talking to smart people who are scared of nuclear waste has me like AHAHHHHHH

[usualgangofidiots]

Back cover of MAD #237, March 1983

Artist: Jack Davis Writer: Sergio Aragones

[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.

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

Long-term nuclear waste warning messages: a mini zine

[dosesofcommonsense]

Finally, someone is exposing the lies about fluoride for all to see. It’s not longer just a Conspiracy Theorist rabbit hole. It’s another Conspiracy Realist exposition on how the government, big pharma, dentists, and nuclear waste facilities have been working together to sicken and kill Americans.

Us Conspiracy Realists have been right so much that maybe you should find one and make a friend. They’ll alert you to the next season of the Corporate Media Machine’s bullshit and tell you this shit coming downstream.

[conkreetmonkey]

Still feel betrayed over nuclear waste being a yellow powder and not a green liquid. Nuclear waste barrels, as far as I can tell, actually do look like that, but they’re like 90% full of concrete to block the radiation and contain very little actual waste each. All of science fiction has lied to us. I don’t think “green goo” style radioactive waste material is even a real thing. Which makes sense when you think about it, since most “unspent” nuclear material is either stone or a metal, so why tf would it “melt” when spent?

Funnily, I think The Simpsons may be to blame for this, and has thus affected the portrayal of nuclear waste in many much more serious pieces of media. I kind of want to know where The Simpsons itself even got the idea from, because as far as I can tell, the “glowing green ooze” idea is just a complete fabrication.

[wandas-hands]

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

[the-arcade-doctor]

This game is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention if you value the world you live in.

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

A culture slowly uprooting itself, a parasite and host intwined as one.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is currently here.

This culture we valued was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning, and that warning was brought with danger.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy, and this story is about someone using this energy to try and make things right.

ATOMIC: REINTOXICATED

[thewandererh]

MY NAME WAS PLUTO

AS A PLANET I WAS KNOWN

INSTEAD I AM AN ANGEL

MY THREE WINGS SCARRED AND SEWN

SPIRES PIERCE THE QUELLING DUSK

LEPT FROM BLOODSHOT EYES

I AM THE VERY DEATH

TO IONIZE THE ALLIED

HELL EXISTS ON EARTH

FORGED WITH JUST DISHONOR

CYCLING THROUGH AGONY

GNAWING MANTLE

LEFT TO FESTER

you are not god for making me. i can never be seized.

bury me as i still live. i remember what you did to me.

T̴̩̙̰̬͙͖̥̺̤̠̲̟̳͘ͅH̨͖̠͓̣͕͉̫̜͜ͅͅI̴̞̦̦̗̥̥͇̰͉͖̭̫̻̜͡Ş̯͕ ̡̬̣̯̼͓͈̹͢P̷̷̷͇̳͔̪̹͉̯̟̟̠̤͓͉̱̹͖̻͓͝L̶̥̤̤̪̜̩͇͟A͢͏̵̶̜̖̙̲̱͉̳̠͢C̢̩͍̳̱͠҉̶̡͕͓̪͚͕̩͈͔̩E̱̭̘̫̮ ̨̣͕͉̫̜ͅI̴̞̦̦̗̥̥͇̰͉͖̭̫̻̜͡Ş̯͕ ̵͎̲̞̣̥͘N̷͚̟͉̭̘̱̖̫̟̺̰͟͢͞Ò͍̱͎̯̣͕̤̜̙̥̻̰̻͝͡T̩̙̰̬͙͖ͅ A͢͏̜̖̙̲ ̡̬̣̯̼͓͈̹͢P̷̷̷͇̳͔̪̹͉̯̟̟̠̤͓͉̱̹͖̻͓͝L̶̥̤̤̪̜̩͇͟A͢͏̵̶̜̖̙̲̱͉̳̠͢C̢̩͍̳̱͠҉̶̡͕͓̪͚͕̩͈͔̩E̱̭̘̫̮ ̷̱̖̫̟̺̰͢͞Ó͍̱͎̯̣͕̤̜͇̻͕͔̳͝͞ͅF̝͟͝ ̴̥̺̤̠̲̟̳͘H̷͖̠͓̱̖̫̟̺̰͜͢͞ͅO̵͍̱͎̯̣͕̤̜͎̲̞̣̥͘͝N̷͚̟͉̭̘̱̖̫̟̺̰͟͢͞O͍̱͎̯̣͕̤̜̰͖̯͕̥̱̲̰̳͟͝Ŗ̜̯͟͡

[nando161mando]

[atomicastrid]

Explaining nuclear waste to my five-year-old!

[victusinveritas]

[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)

[thoughtportal]

“I think what you’re talking about is actually getting more to a gap in our ability to think beyond ourselves and our particular desires or interests, which is exactly why we’re in this environmental crisis in the first place.” Thill tells  me over the phone from California. “We can’t think historically, we can’t think deep time, because we can’t think beyond our own selves or our own lives or our own interests or obsessions. [Products like Pops!] wouldn’t be even able to exist, you wouldn’t be able to market and commodify this stuff and hoodwink people into spending all their money on it if you hadn’t somehow created a culture where all of those questions you’re asking just don’t ever get asked.”

Thill compares it to our global inability to deal with nuclear waste, a subject he covers in his book. “[It’s less surprising] when the smartest scientific minds in the world don’t know what the hell to do with our own nuclear waste we created. If we can’t even solve that kind of problem, how do you begin to solve the problem of people thinking this is a good use of their time and effort to enrich Walmart and the Disney Company just so they can have a cool object on their shelf?”