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The wild boar paradox and the future of nuclear energy
FromThe Big Story
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2023
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Podcast episode
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In many regions of Europe, wild boars roam the landscape. Also, they're radioactive. For a long time, it was assumed the Chernobyl disaster was the cause, and that's still partly true. But the real answer goes back even further, and offers us a glimpse of how the byproducts of nuclear technology can lay dormant for decades, only detected in the most visible part of a system we're still learning to understand.This is the wild boar paradox, and this is what it can teach us about nuclear technologies past, present and future...GUEST: Becky Ferreira, science writer, regular contributor at Motherboard
Released:
Sep 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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