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Posted on 26/07/201626/07/2016

Nuclear Waste We Humans Will Leave Behind

A fine piece in the Financial Times discusses not only the scientific but the cultural and linguistic dimensions of recycling the radioactive waste generated by nuclear power, which will be deadly for at least 100,000 years.

Global warming may turn out to be a minor feature of our legacy as a species.

See also: The Misplaced Anxieties of Green Ecology

Photo credit, Aline Brault, Place Maubert 2009

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