How papyrus can safeguard nuclear waste | The Register

In a really interesting development the UK govenment has decided to store the records relating to long term storage of nuclear waste on Papyrus, or at least the closest that modern paper can get to Papyrus. These are them stored in special archive boxes to keep the conditions optimal for document storage (that is rather like an ancient egyption tomb). Normal paper decays quite quickly due to it's high acid content but Papyrus doesn't have this problem and can last for thousands of years in the correct conditions.

There are other materials that they could have used for this, such as Vellum, which are known to last for many hundreds of years without any extra special storage and is almost indestructable. Up until a few years ago all the records of the UK Parliment, dating back to 1497, where stored on Vellum. However Parliment recently changed to using ordinary paper. I wonder if this is a subtle message about the longevity of the New Labour laws written this way. I hope so.