WHERE DOES NUCLEAR WASTE GO?

INTRODUCTION

Our device is a quiz board game of the "nuclear waste" theme, nuclear waste is a Damocles for the whole world. Also, it‘s an attractive and less public issue, we hope that through such interaction and popular science can lead the public to think about nuclear energy issues.A question arises spontaneously when it comes to talking about nuclear waste.How many are the nuclear waste around the world?Where are nuclear waste located?

NUCLEAR OPERATING AND SHUTDOWN REACTORS DATA

 

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In the front side, we provided nuclear operating and shut down reactors data for the user to make a choice.

Right now there are 448 nuclear reactors operating and 166 nuclear reactors down as can be seen from the graphics below. The United States has the largest number nuclear reactors operating (99) and the largest number of reactors down (36). Three nations, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and also Italy do not have nuclear reactors but have had reactors in the past now turned off.

EXHIBITION

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HOW TO PLAY ?

1.The user takes the barrels and moves them on the map over the countries you think there are nu-clear waste.We want to ask you to try and answer this question by trying to guess the 15 countries with the largest number of nuclear waste. Once you have made your prediction you can check on the other side of the panel the true data on the amount of nuclear waste of the countries.2.After finished placing the barrels take a picture of your data. 3.Look the official data and check your answer.4.Take the reward and visit our website.

WHERE DID PEOPLE THINK THE GEOLOCATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE?

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DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

In the following infographic are shown the countries that have deposits of nuclear radioactive waste. The size of the rectangles determines the amount of waste (unit m³) for each country.

* The dataset doesn’t show the nuclear waste of Russia.

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Research

The contents of our installation came from the work done during our research experience. We have begun to examine the problem of climate change from the point of view of the emission of greenhouse gases and from there we have focused our attention on the consumption of various types of electricity.

To explore the nuclear debate beween China and USA please visit our second research website. To explore the consumption of various types of electricity and the situation of nuclear energy please visit our first research website.