Yet governments and the nuclear industry continue to peddle their untenable bury and forget policy of deep geological disposal which only unloads the toxic legacy of modern day nuclear power and weapons onto uncountable future generations. The long term problems of what to do with nuclear waste remain entirely unsolved writes andrew blowers. It poses a risk to environments.
The nuclear legacy stretches into the far future. There is no reliable method to warn future generations about the existence of nuclear waste dumps he says. Discovery helps provide safer nuclear waste containment in the future june 30th 2020 jim rogers jincheng du an internationally recognized researcher in nuclear waste processing found that the corrosion of stainless steel containers used to store nuclear waste actually accelerates the breakdown of the glass or ceramic waste forms they contain.
This question may not seem the most burning one but as the world increasingly buries its nuclear waste a growing number of experts are trying to come up with a way to warn future generations. Implications for nuclear waste disposal futures 25 778 1993. Nolin communicating with the future.
Johnson robot to explore mysterious tunnels in great pyramid the independent 8 aug 10. Colvile quest for a nuclear waste sign that goes beyond words the telegraph 30 may 06. How do we tell our distant descendants people 10 000 years fr.
Nuclear semiotics is the discipline of communicating the nature of radioactive waste to people who don t know what it is. A 1993 report from sandia national laboratories recommended that any such message should. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research first done by the human interference task force in 1981.
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.
