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    Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely Into the Future?

    by Vincent Ialenti Mar 17, 2015 3 minutes

    At long-term nuclear repositories in Finland and Sweden, waste will be ensconced in cast-iron inserts (right), which are then placed in copper canisters (left).Posiva Oy

    This is part 2 of Vincent Ialenti’s report on how how to think about nuclear waste in the environment over the very long term. Also see part 1, which ran on Facts So Romantic yesterday.

    n the next decade, nuclear-waste experts in Finland and Sweden hope to build the world’s first-ever long-term storage repositories for spent nuclear fuel*. To keep this dangerous, high-level waste from leaking over the many thousands of years during

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