Finland prepares world’s first “nuclear tomb” 

From CT.org…Nuclear power will be an important asset in the world’s energy portfolio until practical fusion is realized. Disposal is the issue. Finland’s approach is useful. 

There is ecological promise in nuclear power. 

Free from greenhouse emissions and air pollution, not dependent on the whims of the weather, nuclear energy could be a powerful force for the transition from fossil fuels. But it does have a drawback: radioactive waste that can remain dangerous for thousands of years. 

And while nuclear fusion would eliminate this problem, it has yet to be harnessed successfully, so fission byproducts are currently unavoidable.  But beneath Finland’s forests, the solution scientists around the world have settled on is set to begin its crucial job. Within a few years, the hot waste will be sealed in copper sarcophagi and put to rest in ancient, static bedrock, to sleep undisturbed for 100,000 years in their “nuclear tomb.”