Nuclear waste: one notch too far?

A mysterious white wall of unknown origin disrupts a vast project to bury nuclear waste in the Finnish-Swedish series “White Wall”.

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Journalist at the Culture Department

By Cedric Petit

Published on 03/14/2023 at 15:54
Reading time: 3 mins

Morated by the Swedish state to build a huge nuclear waste landfill site, the company Ecso foresees the imminent end of this gigantic project, which will put Sweden in the forefront in terms of storage. Thousands of tons of waste are waiting to join, for the next 100,000 years, their destination, dug more than 700 meters underground by the team of Lars Rudd, the engineer in charge of the project. Underground, we still dig into the rock walls, with dynamite. They are ten to be descended to overcome, that day, a tenacious stony block when an accidental explosion occurs. Some of them survived. But the incident falls at least at the right time, on the eve of the inauguration of the site, and when the State threatens to cut funds for the project because of delays and additional costs.

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