* Illustration: Gabriel Kuo * Who says a nuclear dump can't be purty? That's what the Dutch asked when they hired artist William Verstraeten to decorate their Habog waste storage facility. He painted the exterior a radiant orange festooned with thematic equations — all to be repainted in lighter shades every 20 years to symbolize decay. The interior walls feature a series of identical photos, each containing fewer colors; the final, monochrome image is printed on gold leaf, illustrating that decayed waste is valuable ... or something like that. Fellow dumps have even taken notice of the artistic interpretations. The European Nuclear Society recently gave the facility a communications award. But everyone knows it was a beauty contest.
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