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Probably filled with feral ghouls and run by super mutants. >

don't call the Finnish that! they're very nice people >

aivoja! >

Not sexy, but we need infrastructure like this. >

Is there a way to make it sexier? Like that three breasted chick in total recall. I guess I'm just not convinced we've exhausted all avenues. >

Final Resting Place, an article from science.org with a lot more detail about Onkalo. Deposit of spent nuclear fuel will commence sometime in the next two years and excavation will continue for the next 100. The complex will be full in approximately 2120 at which time it will be sealed and all evidence of its existence removed from the surface. Pretty fascinating stuff. >

As far as I remember, they want to put sufficient warning signs around the repository to prevent anyone in the future from accidentally opening it. But maybe these will be buried too. >

They also had to come up with a solution how people in thousands of years would react to seeing the warning signs. Would they understand them, would they be sufficient enough etc. >

I wonder if the solution they landed on was to just obscure its location from the surface so no one would be curious enough to start digging. >

Just build a suburb over it. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)


The facility in Onkalo, on the west coast, is the first of its kind in the world to safely dispose of nuclear waste permanently.
In many countries, the topic of how to deal with nuclear waste brings up strong emotions, Law noted, further adding that Finland's low population density is more favourable than many other countries, as it is the least densely populated country in the EU. Other countries have also faced obstacles in selecting the location of nuclear waste sites - this past summer Switzerland caused fear across the German border when it excavated test tunnels, and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in the US has been on hold since the 1980s.
Smooth sailing in Finland While Finland has struggled with building nuclear power plants like the long-delayed Olkiluoto 3, the construction of the Onkalo site has gone smoothly.


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The WIPP site is only for disposal of nuclear weapon research and development waste. It doesn't contain waste from civilian reactors. 
Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the depository for civilian nuclear waste, but since the Obama administration shut it down, there is no comparable site in the US. 
That means all the high level waste from our nuclear reactors is just sitting in casks on pads next to all of our nuclear power plants. >

Obama
Obama built Yucca Mountain.  What a money pit.  Nukes suck. >

Nukes suck, and nothing is going to make them go away. Even if every nuclear weapon vanished tomorrow, it would be a few months until dozens more were built. The genie is out of the bottle and its not going back, and nobody will be convinced to relinquish nukes for another generation.