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How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?

S1 · E8 · 23 Oct 2021 · 30 min

Long considered clean and inexpensive, nuclear energy raises a major problem: ultimate radioactive waste. This waste must be buried underground for at least a million years—an eternity! How can we warn our descendants of the risk it represents? What pictograms could alert them to the toxic gift we are leaving them?