Environmentalist and nuclear proponent James Lovelock (of "Gaia hypothesis" fame) has proposed distributing nuclear waste throughout wilderness areas to avoid concentrating the effect, but also to scare away developers:
"Stick it in some precious wilderness. If you wanted to preserve the biodiversity of rainforest, drop pockets of nuclear waste into it to keep the developers out. The lifespans of the wild things might be shortened a bit, but the animals wouldn't know, or care. Natural selection would take care of the mutations. Life would go on."
"Stick it in some precious wilderness. If you wanted to preserve the biodiversity of rainforest, drop pockets of nuclear waste into it to keep the developers out. The lifespans of the wild things might be shortened a bit, but the animals wouldn't know, or care. Natural selection would take care of the mutations. Life would go on."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/sep/16/scienceandnature...