Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane's books include Landmarks, Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, and his newest, Underland. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Inside the world's first underground repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste, guardrails surround cylindrical burial holes awaiting their lethal deposits.
Longform Narratives

The Hiding Place: Inside the World's First Long-Term Storage Facility for Highly Radioactive Nuclear Waste

An excerpt from Robert Macfarlane's new book Underland.