|
EXHIBITION
VENUES:
-Majorie Barrick Museum of Natural History
-Western Nevada Community College - Fallon, Nevada
-Eureka Courthouse - Eureka, Nevada
-UCLA, Department of Design | Media Arts
Introduction and Challenge
The Desert Space Foundation presented an exhibition
comprised of winning designs in a variety of media that engage the
challenge of creating an effective universal warning sign/permanent
marker for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca
Mt., Nevada.
The purpose of the warning sign
is to deter intentional or inadvertent human intrusion or
interference at the site and to effectively communicate over the
course of the next 10,000 years (the projected duration of the
volatility of the waste) that the integrity of the site must not be
compromised in any way in order to safeguard humanity from the
release of the radiation contained within.
The Desert Space Foundation’s
primary motive and interest in producing the Universal Warning Sign:
Yucca Mountain Design Exhibition is strictly educational in nature
as it serves only to bring greater public awareness to the facts and
challenges associated with long-term storage of nuclear waste.
This project is intended to
enable people inside and outside the state of Nevada to make
better-informed decisions about this important issue. The project is
not intended to present a biased opinion in favor or in opposition
to the issue.
The exhibition is available to tour. Please
contact Joshua Abbey to discuss
this opportunity.
return to
top
Press
Coverage
Los Angeles Times, October
15th, 2003
The Wall Street Journal, February
10th, 2003
The Village Voice: Features: Deep
Time, Short Sight by R.C. Baker
Las Vegas Sun: Contest
Addresses Yucca Controversy
Las Vegas Review Journal: NEON:
Marking the Future
Las Vegas Weekly: It's about
time
Las Vegas City Life: No thrill
on blue Yucca hill
Las Vegas
City Life: Go tell it on the
mountain
Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, October, 2002
Artweek, May, 2002
Wallpaper, April, 2002
Neon,
Summer, 2002
U.S.News & World Report, August 5,
2002
Corriere Della Sera, Sette Magazine, September 26,
2002
return to
top
Judging
Committee
The work in the exhibition was selected from
design submissions that were part of an international competition.
The jury for the competition included:
· Rita Deanin Abbey,
Emeritus Professor of Art, UNLV
· Jose L. Gamez, Assistant
Professor School of Architecture, UNLV
· Aurore Giguet, Curator
of Exhibit Design, Marjorie Barrick Museum
· David Hickey Author,
Professor of Art, UNLV
· Libby Lumpkin, Author, Assistant
Professor of Art, UNLV
· Joanne L. Nivison, Cultural Affairs
Manager, City of Las Vegas
· Roger Thomas, Executive V.P. of
Design, Wynn Design and Development
· Helga M. Watkins, Assistant
Professor of Art, UNLV
return to
top
Exhibition
Contact
Joshua Abbey
Director
Desert Space
Foundation
18 Cerchio Alto
Henderson, Nevada 89011-3606
(702) 898-0511
(702) 898-8792 fax
JAbbey@DesertSpace.org
return to
top
Reference
Research Links
Passive Institutional
Controls
Waste Isolation
Project
DEEP TIME, Part I, by Gregory
Benford
Modeling Industrial
Thresholds
Yucca Mountain
Project
Reclamation Art
Clark County's Nuclear Waste
Program
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Home Page
Why Nevada is Opposed to Yucca
Mountain
The UNLV Yucca Mountain Education
Project
Nuclear Information and Resource
Service & World Information Service on Energy
Nuclear Waste Transportation
Routes
Nuclear Waste
return to top
Background Information
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has specified, "Disposal sites shall be designated by
the most permanent markers, records, and other passive institutional
controls practicable". The EPA then goes on to define passive
institutional controls to mean "(1) permanent markers placed at a
disposal site, (2) public records and archives, (3) government
ownership and regulations regarding land or resource use, and (4)
other methods of preserving knowledge about the location, design,
and contents of a disposal system". The Department of Energy has
interpreted this regulatory language to mandate the development and
implementation of a system of passive institutional controls
consistent with those components listed in the EPA's definition in
order to protect the integrity of the disposal system for as long as
practicable after disposal. 10,000 years!
return to top
| 