1/12/2024 0 Comments A thousand years song message![]() ![]() And all the while, below the surface, that cave full of waste will get smaller and smaller, until the salt swallows up all those oil drums and entombs them. Then, all the old radioactive gloves and tools and little bits from bombs –all still radioactive– will be solidified in the earth’s crust for more than 200,000 years. ![]() Those decades will become centuries and those centuries will roll into millennia. Years will pass and those years will become decades. ![]() Courtesy of WIPPĮventually, WIPP will be sealed up and left alone. WIPP, which is located deep in the New Mexico desert, was designed to store all of this radioactive material and keep us all safe from it. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the nation’s only permanent underground repository for nuclear waste. Radioactive byproducts from nuclear weapons manufacturing and nuclear power plants. WIPP was designed not only to handle a waste stream of various forms of nuclear sludge, but also more mundane things that interacted with radioactive materials, such as tools and gloves. In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. ![]()
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