Tag: nuclear storage
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Rosemary Joyce on Nuclear Landscapes
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental art, landscape archaeology, nuclear aesthetics, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Rosemary JoyceThe global nuclear industry has for decades used sites like Stonehenge to justify designs for long-term markers to be placed over nuclear waste repositories to ensure they are not violated in distant, imagined futures. Alternative proposals propose a variety of aesthetic installations as alternative ways of marking the contaminated landscapes…
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Tapestries and Radiation: the EHC visits COVRA
Category: UncategorizedTags: blog post, covra, excursion, nuclear aesthetics, nuclear art, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, radioactivityOn the 9th of October, the Environmental Humanities Center visited COVRA, a nuclear waste management facility. Ruby de Vos, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen tells us all about her experience of this unique excursion.
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Nuclear Waste Event: report
Category: NewsTags: Jantine Schröder, nuclear art, nuclear culture, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Sven Lütticken, underground storageOur Nuclear Waste Weeks have come to a close. Student board member Ankie Petersen reports on the Nuclear Waste Event: Nuclear Waste Event During our Nuclear Waste Weeks, local and global news outlets talked about the extent of the pollution of sea water after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, an…