Spring 2006
A Proposal Abstract Sent to the U.S. Department of Energy
The Yucca Mountain site is where, in the coming decades, the whole of American nuclear waste will come to rest. Chosen due to its remote location as well as its lack of geologic activity, the spent radioactive material within will stay dangerous, but unmoved, for the next 10,000 years minimum. In a surprisingly responsible move, you, the planners of the site want to be ready for the worst case scenario: 10,000 years from now, an ecological or man made disaster (or perhaps merely time) will have erased any and all record of our society, and the people now living on earth will have no knowledge of us, or any of our traditions, markings, or language. The question then becomes how to design for, and warn, a people who will not be familiar with any of the symbols we have developed over the millennia.
© Michael Levy
