Boemeke has a cause that’s raising eyebrows. — JJ Geiger/The New York Times
“YOU have to go see the waste – did you see the waste?” Isabelle Boemeke shouted into the wind, which whipped her long, dark braid behind her as she stood on the California shoreline in San Luis Obispo.
The waste in question was the leftover uranium rods from producing nuclear energy, which are stored in thick casks of steel and concrete to keep them, at least theoretically, safely away from human beings.
