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rather than hiding it down some hole or in a cave where it will be forgotten until it starts seeping into the aquifer, why not create a containment system that'

• YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago
  The way I understand it, we expect that our waste will outlast our civilisation and that having it lying around in the open will endanger the civilisation(s) that (we fervently hope) will follow. See wikipedia pages and references for work on this: Long-time nuclear waste warning messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin... Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Warning messages for future humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant#Warning_messages_for_future_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant#Wa... Also, examples of proposed hostile architecture here: https://wipp.energy.gov/pdfs/site_markers.pdf https://wipp.energy.gov/pdfs/site_markers.pdf And the full permanent markers implementation plan, here: https://wipp.energy.gov/library/PermanentMarkersImplementationPlan.pdf https://wipp.energy.gov/library/PermanentMarkersImplementati...