Nuclear Waste Warning Monument

Nuclear waste authorities in canada and britain are looking at possible sites.

Lethal weapon riggs death cold war us vs china. This message is a warning about danger. How workers who buried radioactive waste from 43 us nuclear explosions hid a middle finger salute statue inside radioactive dome on pacific island as warning for. How do you build a warning now that can be understood in the far future.

In 2002 abbey created a design competition to find a permanent warning sign for the proposed nuclear waste site. Experts are trying to come up with the best way to warn earths future inhabitants whether 10000 or 100000 years from now what precisely lies under their feet. A community watchdog group in el cajon has been discussing a solution to the problem of storing spent fuel from the decommissioned san onofre nuclear generating station.

Landmarker for a waste isolation site competition called for designers to create a marker or system of markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the waste isolation pilot plant wipp located in in carlsbad nm that could exist for 10000 or more years according to a press release. The concept was informed by a careful reading of mythologist joseph campbell on the subject of archetypes. Stick it in mojave trails national monument.

This place is not a place of honor. The nuclear waste buried far beneath the earth will be toxic for thousands of years. Nuclear waste is dangerous yes but is also a monument to what we.

The group citizen oversight which has advocated that san onofre be shut down since well before the plants closure was announced in july 2013 has suggested a. Many argue the team wrote that the origins of our. The fourth point means the message we send to the future must include a great deal of information much much more than can be written on a granite monument.

Amid more traditional warning signs which included berms engraved with edvard munchs the scream 1893 the piece de resistance of team as recommendation was the architectural marker at the center of the monument. Long time nuclear waste warning messages are intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future within or above the order of magnitude of 10000 years. A 1993 report from sandia national laboratories recommended that any such message should.