What do you do when you have a barn - sized flock of atomic waste material that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity ? In the Netherlands , the answer was to sting it inside a jumbo art project : specifically , this Orange River construction call the Habog Facility , covered in physics formulas by Einstein and Planck . Every twenty years , the building will be repaint in a lighter color to symbolize the easy decaying radiation in the wastefulness .
The waste in the building come from two different atomic reactor . Under local police force , it must be stored for 100 yr . William Verstraeten , the creative person who designed the facility , views his piece as a comment on metaphorphosis . candid for tours , the construction also contains four symbolic picture . grant to World Nuclear News :
The theme of decomposition is extended to the interior of the facility , where four large picture hang . They all have the same local natural scene , but occur in a sequence in which base colours are hit one by one . The terminal two - look image is printed on gold leaf , to enter the approximation that the waste has more value after its radioactivity has decayed .
The buildingwon an art awardearlier this year .
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