10 September 2006

Future Be Warned: Keep Out!

This is something I have wondered about. Read on and find out what they propose.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,71724-0.html?tw=rss.index

By Vince Beiser 02:00 AM Sep, 07, 2006

A half-mile below the surface of the New Mexico desert, the federal government is interring thousands of tons of monstrously dangerous leftovers from its nuclear weapons program --plutonium-infested clothing, tools and chemical sludge that will remain potentially lethal for thousands of years to come.

It may be safely secured now, but how to keep our descendants centuries in the future from accidentally unearthing it?

That's the question posed by the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation’s only underground repository for military-generated radioactive waste.

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