- #Doomsday vault gets massive upgrade upgrade
- #Doomsday vault gets massive upgrade registration
- #Doomsday vault gets massive upgrade tv
As with the initial leakage reports some of stories went awry, since the report notes half of that warming has already occurred and the 10-degree figure is a maximum-case scenario.
#Doomsday vault gets massive upgrade tv
“When we discovered the water penetration in 2016 only a few wrote about this in Norway, but we registered over 3,000 entries worldwide – and we were interviewed by 30 to 40 radio and TV channels from around the world.”Īnother round of “doomsday” headlines has circulated in recent weeks with the release of a new report stating Svalbard is likely to experience up to 10 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100 compared to the decades before the turn of the millennium. “The interest from abroad is far greater than what we experience from Norway,” Aschim told Teknisk Ukeblad. The hills surrounding the entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault are stripped away as the facility undergoes upgrades and an improved drainage system is installed. Photo by Audhild Storbråten/Hæhre Arctic AS. Seed vault officials quickly noted that was a gross exaggeration and, while some leakage has occurred since the facility opened, the problem has become more apparent and potentially serious in recent years.
That became evident when news of the leakage generated worldwide headlines a couple of years ago when mainstream sources such as The Guardian reported a “flooding” of the vault. While the seed vault is an object of global curiosity and, according to some local tourism officials, the most-requested thing in Longyearbyen visitors want to see, it’s far less in the minds of local residents and even many on the mainland. “Everything must be shipped by boat and if you miss a boat transport it takes ten days before the next boat arrives,” he said. Work is on schedule even though the complexity of both the upgrades and getting several hundred tons of steel and other materials to Svalbard is proving challenging at times, Ronny-André Olsen, manager of the project for Hæhre Arctic, told Teknisk Ukeblad. Drainage pipes and channels in the soil surrounding the vault are also being installed.
#Doomsday vault gets massive upgrade registration
Photo by Audhild Storbråten/Hæhre Arctic AS.Ī separate service building a short distance away from the entrance will house technical facilities so they don’t generate heat within the vault, which will also serve as a reception and deposit registration area for visitors so their presence in the vault is minimized.
#Doomsday vault gets massive upgrade upgrade
The project includes an upgrade of the access tunnel into vault leading to the storage rooms 130 meters inside the mountain (contrary to many reports, the storage rooms and seeds themselves were never threatened by the leakage), featuring a waterproof concrete structure surrounded by denser fill material.Ī new administrative building outside the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will house control equipment and serve as a greeting area for invited guests, helping preserve the vault’s cooling by reducing the time and frequency of visits inside the facility. The project is scheduled to be officially completed Sept.
Test operations of the upgraded facility are scheduled to begin in March, which is also when the first of three seed deposits this year is scheduled. “The 100 million was an estimate and what we have done on Svalbard is rather advanced pioneer work,” Statsbygg Communication Manager Hege Njaa Aschim told High North News this week. The cost of the project originally estimated at 38 million kroner has steadily increased and, while a figure of 100 million kroner has been widely cited during the past year, the final figure is expected to be 120 million kroner, compared to the 48.5 million kroner cost of the original facility. The leakage is due to a combination of thawing permafrost around the entrance that experts didn’t foresee a decade ago, and inadequate drainage and sealing around the entrance. The repairs are necessary due to water leakage that during the past years have caused problems including a short-out of the electrical system. The vault marked 11 years of existence on Tuesday without any announced ceremonial events, in contrast to the multi-day bonanza last year when global experts and media hailed the landmark moments and future potential of the facility, with the renovations playing a decidedly secondary role. Rehabilitation and sealing work on the entrance tunnel of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, along with a new service building outside the facility, began n 2017 and is scheduled to be by Sept.
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