Nuclear Information Centre

At One with the Waste (2025). (MP4, Duration 6m 00s)
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https://vimeo.com/111264241

A Geological Disposal Facility or GDF involves isolating nuclear waste deep underground in suitable geological formations and placing it in highly engineered vaults and tunnels.The facility works by using a multi-barrier approach in which engineered and natural barriers work together to contain and isolate the UK’s most hazardous radioactive waste, keeping it safe and secure over the many thousands of years it will take for the radioactivity to naturally reduce. (Nuclear Waste Services).

As we entrust the buried waste to the long-term stewardship of the earth we are asked to place our trust in the human engineering behind a GDF and its much-modelled, multi-barriered safety features.

This Nuclear Information Centre exhibit imagines an altogether more inseparable relationship with the radioactive waste that we have created; merging the human and geological to the extent that we find ourselves permanently at one with the waste.

Information last updated: Sun 24 Aug 2025

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