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| Sponsors: | Desert
Space Foundation Marjorie Barrick Museum Citizen Alert |
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| Exhibition Dates: | February 1 to March 9, 2002 |
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Barrick Museum Museum Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:45 pm The Desert Space Foundation and the Marjorie Barrick Museum located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas present 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. The
Village Voice: Features: Deep Time, Short Sight by R.C. Baker The work in the exhibition was selected from design submissions that
were part of an international competition. The jury for the competition
included: Joshua Abbey Aurore Giguet WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D. Passive Institutional Controls DEEP TIME, Part I, by Gregory Benford Modeling Industrial Thresholds 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 (PDF) 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! |
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