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Did the next 5,000 generations of humans consent to this risk?

This Underground Tomb in Finland Will Store Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years
Onkalo, meaning “deep pit,” is slated to open in 2024.

The repository is located in this watertight rock, and it’s intentionally seated in the center, as far away as possible from two nearby earthquake faults. (This is one reason why the nuclear plants are already located in Olkiluoto.) The process for actually storing waste will involve drilling into the underground rock and then observing if there are any, even tiny, cracks in the dense bedrock. If there are, those specific locations won’t be used.

When waste arrives on site, it will first be packaged in a cast-iron vessel. Following that, a layer of inert argon gas is introduced, then it’s all closed inside a copper vessel that is welded shut. The real worry is corrosion, which is caused by oxygen—in this case, dissolved in the water itself, hypothetically. The experts at Posiva say by the time any water manages to make it into the sealed copper casks of nuclear waste, the dissolved oxygen will already be consumed by bacteria and other agents acting on the water.

“In Finland, there is a very high level of trust in science and in the authorities. If the national authority says the repository is safe, they don’t need to worry about it,” political science researcher Matti Kojo tells Science. “If you tried to implement the same thing in a country with much lower levels of trust, it would probably fail.”

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a39396407/finland-nuclear-waste-repository/

Also, do you trust your ancestors from 100,000 years ago?