Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years.
A Nuclear Warning Designed to Last 10,000 Years - Hyperallergic
2016年7月21日 · The “Spike Field” and its ominous elements are from a 1992 report by Sandia National Laboratories for the US Department of Energy for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The concepts are ...
Speaking to the Future - Science History Institute
2022年4月19日 · The Sandia planners looked at a host of options, including giant granite spikes designed to scare and intimidate, and a “black hole,” a large, basalt or concrete slab designed to be terrifying. This was part of a “physical language” that humans would recognize as hostile.
How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years’ time - BBC
2020年8月3日 · “The physical markers can be a single object like an obelisk, or many, like a field of spikes, on the site or which point to the site,” says Dr Ele Carpenter, convenor of the Nuclear Culture...
The art of the 10,000-year warning -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire
2020年8月6日 · How to warn future generations to the location of buried long-lived radioactive waste has been debated for decades. Everything from massive obelisks inscribed with ominous warnings and fields of concrete “thorns,” to “atomic priesthoods” and cats that change color when exposed to ionizing radiation—all are real ideas that have been proposed.
In 10,000 years, we’ll know how it ends — Harvard Gazette
2015年12月2日 · In the end, the experts decided on a kind of visual (and visceral) warning system: giant stone spikes described in the film as a “landscape of peril.” The first nuclear waste arrived at WIPP in 1999. The dread of “Containment” is tempered by a deep sense of humanity.
The Man Who Helped Design a 10,000-Year Nuclear Waste Site Marker - VICE
2018年4月26日 · Sandia needed help developing a marking system to deter humans from entering America’s only active nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for the next 10,000 years.
'Containment' Envisions Nuclear Waste Storage 10,000 Years In …
2017年1月9日 · An artist's rendering of the kind of warning the U.S. government could leave at nuclear waste disposal sites to ward off people for thousands of years.
Nuclear Waste: A Warning Sign to Last 10,000 Years
2007年10月25日 · As part of our series on the renaissance of nuclear power, we're looking at the problem of nuclear waste. One challenge: What kind of warning sign would still say "stay away" to humans living...
A Message to the Future by Tim Maly (Works That Work magazine)
Another proposal is Spike Field, in which ominous, chaotically positioned stone spikes thrust upwards. (Concept: Mike Brill, Drawing: Safdar Abidi, Image courtesy of BOSTI.) Forbidding Blocks is a proposal involving house-sized, stone-and-concrete blocks dyed black.