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Daliwood

For many years, the US Dept. of Energy has been trying to design a warning sign or system that would be meaningful to any humans living thousands of years from now. For instance, the Yucca Mountain project is considering this design.

For the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Sandia Labs commissioned some experts to propose a warning sign. Look at the drawing in Sect. 5.2 of these excerpts from their report. It’s hilarious.

The full Sandia report is available here, but be warned that it’s a huge (43-MB) file

I haven’t read the full report, but I suspect it never once mentions that it might be better to avoid having waste that’s lethal for tens of thousands of years than to try to figure out how to keep it from killing our descendants.

blues

There are little nuclear hell holes all over the place. I once live about 20 miles north of Brewster, NY. Just off Rt 22, the main road in those parts, is a little road that goes a mile to the tiny town where I lived. I was in walking range of 'Nuclear Lake', which was known only to the townspeople. It was said to be a former nuclear 'something-or-other', associated with a beautiful little hidden pond. I started walking in toward it one nice day, but changed my mind. I am very glad I turned back. The thing was completely unmarked, but I have since read that those who 'visit' such places tend not to live very long to tell of it. I guess that's why its still such a secret-in-plain-sight.

DeVaul

This is the whole problem with nuclear energy: the waste is NEVER mentioned. Always we hear how building nuclear plants will save us, but no mention is ever made of the radioactive waste that becomes the hottest potato ever pitched around from one agency to another.

We hide it or dump it in the sea and then hope that no one will know who did it or when or why.

Salvation by nuclear energy will become the new BIG LIE in very short order. We can survive smog and ozone and global warming. We cannot survive nuclear accidents occuring on every continent.

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Target number one in any war will be nuclear power plants. They are totally vulnerable. Ask the Israelis and the Iraqis.

Skamandros

"This is the whole problem with nuclear energy: the waste is NEVER mentioned. Always we hear how building nuclear plants will save us, but no mention is ever made of the radioactive waste that becomes the hottest potato ever pitched around from one agency to another."

The sodium-cooled IFR designs seem to deal with the problem relatively well.

DeVaul

"relatively well"?

When discussing nuclear waste, "relative" is an important word. Relative to what? Our lifetimes? Or the lifetime of our species?

Look at the new sign above. Sounds like the new IFR designs will still need to warn humans 10,000 years from now.

Good luck with that.

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mmm I think it is good that the UN is part of the situation that regular
the workings of nuclear plants in the country especially if they are private

Monkfu1

i may be a complete dumb asse but that sign looks to me like someone hiding in a pyramid to escape radiation, could that be what all pyramids a round the world are for? solar radiation? the UN and elite would survive.

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Sometimes sign boards conveys the meaning in a rather funny way but at the moment can't remember how many I came across. I feel we need funny messages as well.

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