Australia is home to the world’s oldest continuous cultures, on Earth’s most stable and arid inhabited continent.
Australia also happens to contain one third of all known uranium: a material that produces waste which must be “isolated from people and their environment” for up to 30,000 generations. Australia is therefore a critical—yet heretofore neglected—site for understanding the nuclear fuel cycle as future cultural and environmental heritage.
Sponsors include both the Killam Trust and The University of British Columbia (2020-22), in Canada.
Australia also happens to contain one third of all known uranium: a material that produces waste which must be “isolated from people and their environment” for up to 30,000 generations. Australia is therefore a critical—yet heretofore neglected—site for understanding the nuclear fuel cycle as future cultural and environmental heritage.
Sponsors include both the Killam Trust and The University of British Columbia (2020-22), in Canada.