Building for eternity

摘要

One day, our great-grandchildren will build a complex of tunnels. The main tunnel will zigzag downwards to a depth of several hundred metres, where it opens up into a system of corridors many kilometres long. Every fifty metres or so, tunnels will branch off to dead ends. Once construction is complete, a constant stream of lorries will come and go. They will be bringing radioactive waste from Zeeland to this final resting place, somewhere in a deep layer of Dutch clay or salt When they have done their job, peace will return to the vaults. No human being will ever have to come here again. Piled high with steel and concrete canisters full of waste, the side tunnels will be sealed off with clay or salt.