
Science in 2023: what to expect this year
Nature Podcast
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The WHO's New Pathogen Watch List
Up to 6,500 tons of radioactive uranium will be packed in copper canisters. They will be then covered with clay and buried inside tunnels of Granite bedrock. The goal is to bury nuclear waste in canisters where it can be stored for several hundred thousand years so that the radiation levels can drop naturally to a level which would be harmless.
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