bojacobs , 3 months ago to sts group

An early plan for long-term burial of spent nuclear fuel was to put it in the Arctic since the ice was "permanent"

"The US Left Nuclear Waste Around The World, Now Climate Change May Unearth It"

#nuclear #NuclearWaste #ColdWar @sts #RMI #Greenland #climate

https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-left-nuclear-waste-around-the-world-now-climate-change-may-unearth-it-73226

bojacobs , 4 months ago to sts group

Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the #Bravo Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on #Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities.

Here is an article I wrote 7 years ago about how Bravo put the word #fallout into our lexicon.

"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene"

#RMI #ColdWar #histodons @sts #NuclearWeapons #NuclearTest

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317011763_The_Bravo_Test_and_the_Death_and_Life_of_the_Global_Ecosystem_in_the_Early_Anthropocene