I've been seeing so many different cats, that I keep getting the "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories" song by Emperor X stuck in my head:
In case you don't know the story: this song was commissioned by the 99 Percent Invisible podcast for their episode on how to warn people in the far future to stay away from nuclear waste deposits.
The idea is that no civilisation existed for as long as the time that radioactive waste remains dangerous. Hence, we need ways to warn people that are robust for lost of language, symbols, etc.
One idea was to breed cats that light up in the presence of radiation, and to then create a folk song about the importance of keeping cats, and the importance of leaving (with the cat) when the cat changes colour.
"Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland"
"Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed."
This is what the former Soviet nuclear submarine «Komsomolets» looks like – 30 years after it sank in the Norwegian Sea. The submarine lies on a depth of nearly 1700 metres, and it was filmed by the ROV «Ægir 6000» on July 7th 2019.
Read about the findings: hi.no/en/hi/news/2019/july/researchers-discovered-leak-from-komsomolets
Had long known about the radioactive boar in Germany resultant from Chernobyl contamination, but a team has shown that a significant amount of the radionuclides they are eating comes from Cold War nuclear weapon testing.
Not only has used #nuclear fuel been stored safely for decades, it can be reprocessed into fuel for the future.
Used fuel safely stored could potentially power us for centuries, via fast breeder reactors. No more mining needed, solving the waste problem at the same time.
🤦🏻♀️ When nuclear waste is so safe stored why many #nuclear storage facilities in #Germany are closed because of the great danger of those storage facilities
And when the myth of reusing the nuclear waste would be based on reality why are the #NuclearWaste storage facilities are not being emptied🤷🏻♀️
It’s all nice propaganda of the tax money wasting #NuclearIndustry and nothing else
#NuclearEnergy as it exists now is still extremely dangerous and uncontrolled
You are absolutely right that we are living at least for this subject in a different world 🤷🏻♀️
For me the most interesting and amazing about this is to see how good and effective the Nuclear Energy industry and Nuclear lobbyists are working with their propaganda
Nothing has changed in the danger of Nuclear Energy and its waste but at once more and more people seems to embrace Nuclear Power without any knowledge about the reality
I have to admit that is indeed all very interesting as I know very well out of own experiences
And it’s nice for you that your interest and work inside the Nuclear business made you embracing everything what has to do with #NuclearEnergy
But it still did not change my opinion and you have no idea about my knowledge on which I base my opinion🤷🏻♀️ But that doesn’t matter because I do not have to convince you