Living with nuclear waste means remembering on a different scale

Re:Living with nuclear waste means remembering on a differen... by ajdlinux on Sunday June 11, 2017 @09:39AM (#14531909)

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Re:Living with nuclear waste means remembering on a differen... by beefman on Sunday June 11, 2017 @01:42PM (#14532882)

  This place is not a place of honor.
  No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
  Nothing valued is here.
  This place is a message and part of a system of messages.
  Pay attention to it!
  Sending this message was important to us.
  We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

Hard to imagine a circumstance in which such a statement is not a lie. In this case it's a real doozy; plutonium is the most valuable substance on Earth.

On the other hand, maybe such a confused people do not deserve it.

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Re:Living with nuclear waste means remembering on a differen... by Animats on Sunday June 11, 2017 @03:25PM (#14533345)

Those are proposed markers. Here's a real one.[1] That's the SL-1 reactor site, in Idaho. There, an experimental reactor ran away due to a control rod removal during maintenance, and blew apart in a steam explosion. This was in 1961.

Already, that marker looks dated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#/media/File:SL-1Burial.jp...

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