Nuclear waste management is simply incomprehensible on human timescales, and everyone involved is making it up as they go along. Pity Australia's ruling class didn't visit Sellafield before embracing their latest nuclear wet dreams.
If Onkalo begins operating on schedule, in 2025, it will be the world’s first GDF for spent fuel and high-level reactor waste – 6,500 tonnes of the stuff, all from Finnish nuclear stations. It will cost €5.5bn and is designed to be safe for a million years. The species that is building it, Homo sapiens, has only been around for a third of that time.