In this talk Harvard Professor Peter Galison discusses the "strange and often hidden connections between land too pure to be used, and land so defiled with nuclear waste that it must be forbidden, legally, from human use for 10,000 years".
How do we warn people 400 generations hence of the danger of buried plutonium? This is one of the questions raisrd in an interview with Harvard Professor Peter Galison, who speaks, writes and researches about nuclear waste and the technical, moral, political etc dilemmas of long lived radioactive waste.
MAPW revised its nuclear waste policy in 2012. The three-page Radioactive Waste Policy - revised February 2012 - begins by stating that reduction at source (waste minimisation) is the fundamental principle in reducing the risks of environmental contamination from nuclear waste.
An exhibition of photographs by renowned photographer Jagath Dheerasekara which aims to break down the preconception that area proposed for a nuclear dump is in the middle of nowhere and thus suitable for such a purpose.
An exhibition of photographs by renowned photographer Jagath Dheerasekara which aims to break down the preconception that area proposed for a nuclear dump is in the middle of nowhere and thus suitable for such a purpose.
On 6 December 2011 the Northern Territory Newsasserted in an editorial that the nuclear waste destined for Muckaty will be radioactive waste from hospitals and accused MAPW of "scare mongering".
An article by Dr.Peter Karamoskos on the proposed radioactive waste dump at Muckaty. The article, printed in the Northern Territory News on Saturday 10 December 2011, was written in response to an editorial in that paper repeating the assertion that the radioactive waste to be stored will be largely nuclear medicine waste.
