What are we doing with nuclear waste?

Laura Leay, Ph.D.
7 min readAug 9, 2021

Given that I’ve worked in the nuclear industry for quite a while, I have a certain perspective on the waste that it produces. I was interested to hear other perspective so I sat down with another nuclear researcher and a sustainability expert to find some alternative point of view.

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Funnily enough, although I’ve been working with waste produced by the nuclear industry one way or another for over a…

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Laura Leay, Ph.D.

Scientist and podcaster with a background in the nuclear industry and academia. Interested in sustainable engineering and climate action.