Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong
I’ve feared it. I’ve protested it. Now I’m hugging it
For most of my life, I have been terrified of nuclear waste. I believed it was a green, gloopy, corrosive liquid as depicted in The Simpsons. I thought it was dumped in rivers, contaminated the environment with radiation and gave people cancer. I feared waste as if it was cancer.
I was 18 years old and I believed that nuclear energy was dangerous, the nuclear industry was evil, and renewables were the only way to save humankind.
