"What do you do when you have a barn-sized pile of nuclear waste materials that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity? In the Netherlands, the answer was to stick it inside a giant art project: specifically, this orange building called the Habog Facility, covered in physics formulas by Einstein and Planck. Every twenty years, the building will be repainted in a lighter color to symbolize the slowly decaying radiation in the waste."

By way of dG. The accompanying photo is fantastic.

Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm. Filed under External. Tagged with art, dG, fun with atoms, SCIENCE!. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.