Have you ever wondered where our nuclear fuel comes from? How it’s extracted from the earth, and whether this process is clean, safe, and fair enough to fit in the bigger picture of the energy transition?
Atomic energy, medical isotopes, “the bomb” – they all need radioactive material to work. While the risks of nuclear energy have been in the public mind for quite some time now, the actual origins of our nuclear fuel are much more obscure. With this lecture we’ll explore the industry, market, and social and environmental realities of uranium mining. With Dirk Bannink, co-founder of the nuclear energy documentation and research centre Stichting Laka, and Rianne Teule, radiation expert for Greenpeace, who visited uranium mining towns in Niger and documented environmental impacts.
