*Deep geologic repositories. Mostly design-fiction. Except in, uh, Finland.
http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/containing-uncertainity-design-for-infinite-quarantine/
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Through our research, we discovered that the deep geologic repository is a bit of a fiction, at least in 2010. Our recent image search for “deep geologic repository” in Google returned numerous plans for repositories around the world, including Germany, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom, China and of course the United States. Each image represents an attempt to catalyze massive economic investment, solve incredible feats of engineering, apply decades of research, and earn precarious public consent.
But in reality, not one proposed repository is complete and receiving high-level nuclear waste (waste generated by nuclear power) anywhere in the world. This means that deep geologic repositories are hardly more than imaginary spaces of infinite quarantine....
