CNN is running a story on the 100,000 year Finnish nuclear storage bunker. I hope to see this at some point, I love it when people do projects that make our 10,000 year project seem short sighted…
In Finland they believe they have found a [nuclear waste] solution, with the world’s first permanent nuclear-waste repository — “Onkalo” — a huge system of underground tunnels that is being hewn out of solid rock and must last at least 100,000 years.
Work on the concept behind the facility commenced in 1970s and the repository is expected to be backfilled and decommissioned in the 2100s. None of the 40 people working on the facility today will live to see it completed. [read complete story]
Thanks to Kevin Berry and @jetjocko for sending this my way.
