Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.
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Are 500 meters deep enough?
500m is the industry standard depth for deep geological repositories for nuclear waste
But is that enough? I rarely trust industry standards.
It’s way more than is needed to block any radiation.
What about archeologists of a distant future?
Start turning the words to don’t change colour kitty
I think that’s still being debated or decided or refined. Warnings or signage need to be interpreted correctly in 80,000 years.
Google hostile architecture for nuclear waste sites.
It’s better than a skull and crossbones in my opinion
I mean, really the only thing that’s gonna expose them is plate tectonics. Just to give a sense of scale, America and Europe are diverging by 4 cm/yr, so will be 500 metres farther from each other, horizontally, in about 10,000 years. Geologically stable regions (called cratons) would not experience such motion vertically for much, much, much longer.