Just like in Finland across the Baltic, Sweden determines that the very best place in the nation to put a deep geological storage site for spent nuclear fuel coincidentally happens to be an existing nuclear reactor site. How lucky can you get!
More proof that our DGR siting choices reflect the politics and economics of current governments rather than long-term safety.
@bojacobs@histodons I'm assuming you know about how apparently metal that was forged before nuclear testing is a hot commodity for scientific instruments.
@Legit_Spaghetti@histodons
Absolutely. One key early source of this pre-contamination metal was World War One German naval vessels that had been scuttled off the coast of Scotland in the 1920s.
"Bovenbouw Architectuur and ono architectuur designed a communication center for the storage of low and medium-level radioactive waste in Dessel, Belgium. To remain relevant throughout the 300-year process required to decrease the radioactivity, the building must be able to adapt to unforeseeable changes over the centuries."
Gothic Warnings: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, & the Anthropocene
29 Nov, University of Aberdeen, & online. Free
Dr Emily Alder reconsiders these famous #Gothic works in light of the #Anthropocene, a concept used to describe the impact of human activities on Earth systems & in which the #Victorian period is deeply implicated
In Harvesting the Biosphere , Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the present day. Smil examines all harvests—from prehistoric man's hunting of megafauna to modern crop production—and all uses of harvested biomass, including energy, food, and raw materials.