Films on Science - Finland’s 100,000-Year Plan to Banish Its Nuclear Waste - NYTimes.com
On a wooded island more than a hundred miles northwest of Helsinki, in the town of Eurajoki, Finnish engineers are digging a tunnel. When it is done 10 years from now, it will corkscrew three miles in and 1,600 feet down into crystalline gneiss bedrock that has been the foundation of Finland for 1.8 billion years.
And there, in a darkness that is still being created, the used fuel rods from Finland’s nuclear reactors — full of radioactive elements from the periodic table as dreamed up by Lord Voldemort, spitting neutrons and gamma rays — are to be sealed away forever, or at least 100,000 years.
This sounds like a very interesting documentary! Reminds me that even with all the annoying things that finnish politics and policy-making can do, it is capable of making rational and pragmatic decisions that no other nation has been capable of yet. Like doing nuclear power the way it should be.
