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How do you warn someone 24,000 years from now to avoid our radioactive waste?
- danieltillett 11y agoI have never understood this concern about radioactive waste. Just bury it so deep that nobody other than an advanced civilisation with Geiger counters could possibly get to it. Problem solved.
- justintocci 11y agoits actually simpler than that. my understanding is that the more dangerous stuff burns down by then. if something has a half life long enough to still be around thousands of years from now its decaying too slowly to be really dangerous. also, new nuclear tech is under development that is supposed to burn waste as fuel. the likelyhood this is even going to be an issue in twenty years is pretty small. so its really just an interesting problem. something for the philosophers and psychologists to mull over.
- danieltillett 11y agoYes it seems to be a way for people with no scientific background (or understanding) to feel like they have something to contribute.
- sheep0 11y agoThere is a documentary about the same issue called 'Into Eternity'[1]. The film focuses on the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository[2] being created in Olkiluoto, Finland. It deals with the issues of creating something to last for the massive time frame and the communication issues presented in this article. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_%28film%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_%28film%29 2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...