"Ten Thousand Years"

"The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the nation’s only permanent underground repository for nuclear waste...Eventually, WIPP  will be sealed up and left alone. Years will pass and those years will become decades. Those decades will become centuries and those centuries will roll into millennia. People above ground will come and go. Cultures will rise and fall. And all the while, below the surface, that cave full of waste will get smaller and smaller, until the salt swallows up all those oil drums and entombs them. Then, all the old radioactive gloves and tools and little bits from bombs –all still radioactive– will be solidified in the earth’s crust for more than 200,000 years. Basically forever.

Storing something safely forever is a huge design problem"

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

This was a particularly amazing episode of the podcast -

Aaaaand "Don't change color Kitty" is now my favorite song