Comments on: Best Attempts for Navigating the Unknownable Future

By: Repository: A Typological Guide to America’s Ephemeral Nuclear Infrastructure « FOP

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:20:40 +0000

[...] traveled alongside civilian traffic within the U.S. Interstate system. In spring, 2009, we encountered one of a mobile nuclear infrastructures in Idaho, presumably delivering waste to WIPP. In our moments of passing this truck, we realized [...]

By: zhando

zhando — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:10:32 +0000

I’m a wholehearted supporter of nuclear power but not the status quo type that is so expensive and prone to Fukushima type failure.

I understand that New Mexico has stable salt formations that are very stable places for storage of nuclear waste.

However I don’t believe that nuclear waste is really waste. All of that hot stuff can be transmuted to lower level waste throwing usable energy off in the process. Means to do that are well understood by anyone familiar with nuclear chemistry.

All that’s needed is less ignorance and the will to move forward.

By: To Contain and Confine: Best Attempts for Design Futures « FOP

To Contain and Confine: Best Attempts for Design Futures « FOP — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:34:02 +0000

[...] recent FOP posts, we wrote about designs that we deem to illustrate “best attempts” by humans to create materials, practices and infrastructures capable of meeting monumental [...]