The vault, which protects hundreds of thousands of seeds for every crop needed to produce food in the event of a catastrophe, is buried deep within a mountain on Norway's Spitsbergen Island at the archipelago of Svalbard, located within the Arctic Circle. Known as the "Doomsday" vault, it was built to withstand natural disasters and even nuclear war, but the permafrost melt sent water flooding into the entrance of the vault. The water quickly froze, however, in the vault's subzero controlled interior temperatures and never came close to threatening the seeds.
Now, the Norwegian government is moving quickly to prevent the vault's entrance from flooding again. According to Live Science, plans are underway to build new waterproof walls inside the entry tunnel, and might even build a new entrance in a different spot in the future.
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