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The wild boar paradox and the future of nuclear energy

The wild boar paradox and the future of nuclear energy

FromThe Big Story


The wild boar paradox and the future of nuclear energy

FromThe Big Story

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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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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