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Nuclear warning symbol. 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 10 000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research first done by the human interference task force in 1981. A 1993 report from sandia national laboratories recommended that any such message should.
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