Containing Toxicity: Nuclear Waste as a Societal Challenge
What qualifies as "toxic" in society is an inherently unstable category, dependent on risk assessment, structures of profit but also cultural ideas about safety and health. This joint lecture focus es on a specific form of toxicity, namely nuclear toxicity, through the example of management of nuclear fuel resource s, especially in their aftermath as waste. Starting with an overview of technoscientific risks consideration of nuclear, we will venture into questions of safety, recycling, storage, and stakeholders interpretation through art, broaching case-studies from Europe, Asia and the US. This joint-lecture falls under the Leonardo Lecture series, under the auspice of Excursus of Energy Transitions under the remit of "Resource Policy." https://www.leonardo.rwth-aachen.de/en/modules/suse-2023/resource-policy-2/