nuclear waste
Kitty Litter, Ocean Burial, Shooting It at the Sun: The Worst Ways to Stash Nuclear Waste
Humanity has come up with some unbelievably bad storage solutions for radioactive waste over the years.
Radioactive Cats and Nuclear Priests: How to Warn the Future About Toxic Waste
Nuclear waste can remain toxic for tens of thousands of years. How do you warn the future that they’re standing on nuclear waste when there’s no one around to translate?
Watch Our 360/VR Documentary POWER on How Nuclear Energy Is Made
Motherboard takes you inside three nuclear facilities in 360/VR.
The Plan to Build a Million-Year Nuclear Waste Dump on the Great Lakes
How to future-proof an underground vault long after we are gone.
Citizens Have Voted Against South Australia's Nuclear Storage Facility
A jury of 300 randomly selected people have declared the facility comes with too many unknowns.
To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain
"Sometimes, you fight fire with fire."
The US Banned This Ship and Now It's Carrying 28 Tons of Radioactive Waste from France to Australia
French energy company Areva, which is managing the shipment, says some “small flaws” were found during the ship’s pre-departure inspection, but they had been fixed.
6 Artists Who Aren't Afraid to Work with Radioactive Materials
Warning: This art may be bad for your health.
Canada Might Start Dumping Nuclear Waste Near the US Border
The plan, by Ontario Power Generation, to bury the waste less than a mile from Lake Huron will have “no significant adverse effects on the Great Lakes,” according to a Canadian review panel. Opponents aren't buying it.
Nuclear Waste Is Art in the Work of Taryn Simon
The artist unveils an artwork 1,000 years in the making at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Mini Robot Submarines Fishing for Nuclear Waste
A team in England is using the remote operated vehicles to pluck out medical isotope cartridges from a nuclear spent fuel storage pool.