Sweden’s radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that it is there? Researchers at Linköping University have come up with a proposal for how to keep the memory alive over generations.
“We’re trying to do something that no one has ever done before. The person who eventually reads this might not even be human, but perhaps a kind of AI or something else,” says postdoctoral fellow Thomas Keating, who led the research project together with Professor Anna Storm at Tema T – Technology and Social Change at LiU.
Further reading: Highly radioactive nuclear waste – how to keep it from oblivion
