Indigenous nuclear waste management.
Indigenous nuclear waste management. “The top of Pukeatua at Te Rewarewa on an early summer morning” ©Te Tui Shortland. Explanation: Nuclear Semiotics [d ɪˈ s ɪ dj ʊ ə s] ADJECTIVE 1. Nuclear Semiotics refers to the study of how to warn people at least 10,000+ years from now about nuclear waste, when all known languages may have disappeared within this timeframe. o any warning to the future about nuclear waste will have to be more creative than just posting a sign outside of storage sites. in a nutshell, it would mean using "atomic folk objects" to create an oral tradition, similar to how Indigenous cultures pass down traditional knowledge, of stories associated with nuclear sites. “We cannot predict the future or stop the future from happening, but we do need to figure out how to communicate to future generations, at least 240,000 years from now, that these geological repositories must remain isolated and undisturbed” ...