Nuclear Power: it's a motherfvcker, don't you know
After a few hours at Yucca Mountain, it becomes clear why, despite a desperate need for a solution to the nuclear waste problem (there is already enough waste in temporary storage to fill it), the site has not opened: No one is absolutely sure what will happen if it does. If all the regulatory hurdles are cleared, if Nevada loses its political battle and Yucca Mountain’s license — which Benson says will be measured in “linear feet,” not pages — is finally approved, the waste that goes into it will last for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years. “We don’t know what will happen in 10,000 years,” Benson admits. “Will people speak English? There probably won’t be a United States.”
From part 2 of Judith Lewis’ timely and important article in the LA Weekly: Green to the Core? How I tried to stop worrying and love nuclear power.
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"He talks about the difficulty of establishing a warning system that will matter to creatures of the future, who likely won’t read our signs."
There was an article a while ago, I think in Metropolis, where they addressed this from a graphic design standpoint. One of the final candidates for what could possibly still mean "DANGER!" 10,000+ years from now was a phallus.
Posted by: LionIndex | November 16, 2005 12:16 PM
Readers of Judith Lewis' recent report on nuclear power might be interested to know that Stewart Brand, who is interviewed in the article, has also endorsed a rather different online guide to nuclear power in the United States. "Rad Decision" is a technothriller novel that provides the first insider account of day-to-day occurrences at an American nuclear plant, and how the plant would deal with an accident. It is available at no cost at RadDecision.blogspot.com.
Ms. Lewis has also commented favorably on the site on her LA Weekly blog.
"I'd like to see RAD DECISION widely read." - Stewart Brand.
http://RadDecision.blogspot.com
Posted by: James Aach | November 18, 2005 1:02 PM