The vehicle will take this waste into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean when it leaves the station sometime from June onwards.

BBC: Johannes Kepler freighter docks with space station

It is scheduled to stay at the ISS until August, after which it will undock and take station rubbish into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean.

BBC: Freighter boosts altitude of ISS

Bands burn more brightly, but more briefly: they become over-exposed, and people get bored.

ECONOMIST: The last big thing

This year, the world is expected to burn through some thirty-one billion barrels of oil, over 3.5 billion tons of coal, and one hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

NEWYORKER: The Island in the Wind

Nuclear engineers have long known of increased risks from high burn-up fuels, but scientists at Argonne have been sounding the alarm about storage dangers in recent years after their research ( pdf) showed high burn-up fuels may result in fuel rods becoming more brittle over time.

FORBES: Fancy New Lids for Nuclear Waste Casks, As Contents Get Hotter

Fear of these losing outcomes often leads to a number of suboptimal choices, including over-capitalizing a company (trying to protect against the downside), cutting the burn so much as to cut corners and impair a program (doing an under-powered clinical study), or doing less-than-optimal business development deals.

FORBES: The Energetics of Fear and Greed in the Boardroom

The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.

NPR: Sun Kil Moon: 'Tiny Cities'

There are elaborate experimental fusion reactors all over the globe, and they have made steady but achingly slow progress toward a controlled, self-sustaining burn.

FORBES: A Nuclear Hybrid