Nuclear Waste

Postnuclear Media Objects of the Anthropocene: Green Glass Rocks and Red Clouds

Postnuclear Media Objects of the Anthropocene: Green Glass Rocks and Red Clouds

Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea | Courtesy: Broken Nature Looking toward ground zero at the Trinity nuclear test site, New Mexico, 2017. Photo: Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea This text is part of the research project An Archaeology of Containment: Exhuming the perpetual architectures and territories of nuclear waste. Revision of the English translation by Daniel Lacasta Fitzsimmons. AsRead More

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Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us

Sonali Huria| The Leaflet  THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More

100 Thousand Years and Counting: A Graphic Report on Nuclear Waste

100 Thousand Years and Counting: A Graphic Report on Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste September 3, 2020 at 5:55 pm 0 comments

In the graphic report linked below the description of “reprocessing” irradiated nuclear fuel refers to dissolving the solid fuel in nitric acid, thereby creating a corrosive and fiercely radioactive liquid. That is indeed how most reprocessing in other countries has so far taken place.

PMANE Statement against India’s first Away From Reactor (AFR) proposed at Koodankulam

PMANE Statement against India’s first Away From Reactor (AFR) proposed at Koodankulam

Koodankulam, Nuclear Waste June 5, 2019 at 1:28 pm 0 comments

Statement of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) against India’s first Away From Reactor Spent Fuel Storage Facility (AFR) proposed to be set up at the Koodankulam power project site