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Bo Jacobs

Spent nuclear fuel is the most substantive product of human civilization. It will be in our descendants' world long after our cities, languages and gods are forgotten.

"Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site"

"Nothing is produced at anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one"

@nuclearhumanities@a.gup.pe @sts@a.gup.pe

Guardian Long Read: shrtm.nu/MOAp

@bojacobs @nuclearhumanities @sts and people think we should stop using nuclear power. Madness I say nuclear power is a necessary byproduct of making the artifact for which we will be remembered, not using that power would be an absolute waste.