The thorny social problem of permanent nuclear waste storage
"As the U.S. races toward a post-carbon future in which nuclear energy could play a key role, policymakers, energy experts, and community leaders say dealing with the inevitable waste isn’t a technical problem, but a social one. Engineers know how to build a repository capable of safeguarding the public for millennia. The bigger challenge is convincing people that it’s safe to live next to it."
As the U.S. races toward a post-carbon future in which nuclear energy could play a key role, policymakers, energy experts, and community leaders say dealing with the inevitable waste isn’t a technical problem, but a social one. Engineers know how to build a repository capable of safeguarding the public for millennia. The bigger challenge is convincing people that it’s safe to live next to it.
Nukes, political violence, and environmental exploitation: The enduring relevance of Dune
(Modeling people takes more than emotional inventory since they likely took a lot of rehearsal or training, over multiple nervous systems, to get where they are. Can AI get charisma down? With or without appeal to empathy? What will that mean for elections? BCI?)