Da dies für Verwirrung gesorgt hat: Ich spreche vom Endlager Konrad in Salzgitter. Ist es ein echtes Endlager? Vielleicht sollte Ich mit der Frage anfangen...

Heute ist der Tag meines Besuchs des Atommüll Endlagers Konrad in Salzgitter. Der Schacht geht 1200m tief, und der Bereich den wir betreten wird über 35°C warm.

Jeder von uns bekommt eine Sauerstoffflasche für den Fall das wir verschüttet werden, da die Bergungsarbeiten ein paar Wochen dauern würde.

Wünscht mir Glück.

Glück auf! Ich bin heil wieder zurückgekommen, aber nicht als gleicher Mensch. Ich hoffe heute Nacht noch berichten zu können.

A short while ago I was allowed to visit a long term nuclear waste storage facility, built to hold low and mid tier radioactive material for geological time (hundreds of thousands to a few million years).

I entered early in the morning and got into an elevator driving me 800 meters deep, with the complex tunnel system we toured going up to a kilometer down from the surface. I came up in the late afternoon a changed man due to what I've seen.

@ErikUden

Thank you very much for your pictures and impressions.

In the 1990s, I once visited the Asse mine in my capacity as a youth representative (works council).

Since it was not an official tour for visitors such as politicians or environmental organisations, the whole thing turned out to be rather unvarnished. Even back then, hardly anyone believed that all the rubbish could be removed.

Thousands upon thousands of yellow barrels, some of them dumped from heights

skulls, plasticised cancer tumours and the like for low cultures, and science cast in gold for developed civilisations, could deter and explain.

If climate chaos does not wreak worse havoc on humanity.

“Innocent” nature has and always will suffer under humanity.

of several metres. Deformed, wedged together and rusting.

Now, 40 years later, water is leaking in everywhere. Once something is down here, it takes an enormous amount of effort to get it back up. Geological forces such as water, but also deformations, will find their way. Since much of it will probably emerge altered in its composition, as if pressed through a mangle or cutter, I don't think signs will help.

Perhaps warnings such as artefacts cast in resin (cf. amber), such as @ErikUden

And what applied to Asse will also apply to Konrad.

Everything that is toxic will be stored here in large quantities. Not only radioactive substances, but also heavy metals, asbestos and chemical waste. Undeclared or falsely declared, greased by bribery, these substances will find their way in.

If, in geological times, there should still be a higher intelligence:

The region around today's Salzgitter will become dangerous.

Hey @hundhamm, thank you for your insight! The Asse / Asse II project was also discussed on our tour. It's ridiculous. You have one place where nuclear waste was supposed to be stored, which is now leaking out into the surrounding the rivers only a few kilometers away from this new place.

It feels to me that the pressure to continue building Schacht Konrad comes not just from the sunk-cost-fallacy of the billions already spent on it, but also the fact a similar facility close-by needs to shut down due to being rushed and unsafe.

It's almost as if there's something to be learned here, but I can't quite figure out what it is.