99% Invisible: Ten Thousand Years In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,the nation’s only permanent underground repository for nuclear waste.
Storing something safely forever is a huge design problem. The challenge this panel faced was different: To communicate the danger of what was stored at WIPP to people 10,000 years in the future.