How to protect nuclear waste for 100,000 years? What will humans be like in 100,000 years? Will they be more or less advanced than us? What language will they speak? Do we warn them? Or do we plan to make the whole thing disappear under a forest?
PRI’s The World explores these questions in Finland, where a network of deep tunnels is being dug for materials that will be highly toxic well-farther into the future than we can even imagine.
Listen to the radio report and see a slide show, and find links to other coverage of the project, here. It’s a fascinating story that bends one’s mind.