nuclear waste
This is a powerful long-form piece on how the Manhattan Project and its aftermath, with the utter indifference toward disposing of nuclear waste that partially defined its domestic impact, is.
While no contamination was released by today's tunnel collapse at Hanford, it's very much worth noting that the infrastructure that is supposedly keeping our the radioactive legacy of our nuclear.
69 years into the Nuclear Era and no one still has any solution on what to do with nuclear waste. It's one thing when we are talking about nuclear weapons production but the sheer level of waste produced in nuclear power plants makes it a...