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This is a winning design from the Desert Space Foundation's contest to design a universal warning sign for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site that,hopefully, will be effective for 1 million years.
In 2002, after Congress and President Bush approved plans to store power plant nuclear waste material inside Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the EPA was placed in charge of laying out the repository's building codes, designed to last 10,000 years.
But opponents of the Yucca Mountain plan filed a lawsuit which argued that the regulation did not extend far enough into the future. After the courts agreed, the EPA extended the regulation by 100 times, to 1 million years.
"The decision to place the waste [in Yucca Mountain] will impact humans 1 million years in the future," a spokesperson for Desert Space says. "To place that kind of responsibility forward, I can't think of anything more audacious."
Can you say "homeland insecurity"?
Yucca Mountain update:
http://www.yuccamountain.org/new.htm
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