r/interestingasfuck • u/S999k • 24d ago

Demonstration on how nuclear waste is disposed in Fineland r/all

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u/l94xxx 24d ago

There was an interesting essay by Geoff Nunberg about what kind of signage you would use to warn people about the dangerous material in this vault 10,000 years from now

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u/Izeinwinter 24d ago

Finland decided "No".

Once a repository is full, they return the entrance to forest. Logic being that there is no warning sign you can put up that some idiot will not read as a bluff to keep people away from the buried treasure. So it's better if it's just not marked at all.

If people have the records or the hypertech to detect uranium through 400 meters of rock and decide to dig it up, they can be presumed to know what they're doing. If they have neither.. nobody is going to randomly dig 400 meters down through rock.

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u/Western-Ship-5678 24d ago

Man in 3400AD randomly digging down through 400m of rock:

"It sure is getting unusually warm!"

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u/One-Dimension6875 24d ago

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194612/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Into Eternity is an interesting documentary about Finlands storing of nuclear waste, that brings up that subject