How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?
42: The Answer to Almost Everything · Season 1 · Episode 8
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?
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Season
1
Episode
8
Air Date
23/Oct/2021
Air Time
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Runtime
30 min
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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?
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