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My interest in nuclear energy and nuclear waste facilities are based on a
study which argues that nuclear waste is the only mark that we leave on
this planet that will survive us and every culture we develop.
Radiation stays with us, and it is the most persistent mark of us
tempering with our physical world. How can we satisfy 8 billion people
and their energy demand? Some say that nuclear energy is the perfect
transitional energy, but does it justify the severity of pollution it
generates? How does this relate to the marks we found that were left by
cultures before us? What will they think of us in thousands and
thousands of years? We see in adventure movies that opening sarcophagi
from the past causes some disease to spread, and in the end everyone to
die. This very thing can happen in the future with our nuclear waste.
How do we protect future cultures from our poisonous scar that we leave on
the planet? Is there any way to mark a place like this? Languages,
symbols, even the constellations are as efemer as us.