The Art of Nuclear Waste Warnings

Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field that combines elements of linguistics, semiotics, archaeology, and other disciplines to explore the problem of long-term communication regarding nuclear waste repositories. It focuses on developing methods and systems to effectively communicate the dangers associated with nuclear waste to future generations or civilizations thousands of years into the future.

The primary goal of nuclear semiotics is to create a communication system that can convey information about the presence of buried nuclear waste and its potential hazards, even in the absence of a shared language or cultural context. The challenge arises from the fact that languages and cultural symbols can change over time, and the current understanding of the messages we use may not persist for thousands of years.

Researchers in nuclear semiotics have proposed various approaches to address this issue. Some ideas include the use of pictograms, symbols, and physical markers that can convey warnings or instructions across time. The design of such symbols often takes into account factors like universal recognition, stability, and resistance to alteration.

Additionally, nuclear semiotics also involves considering the development of oral traditions, myths, and legends that can be passed down through generations as a means of preserving knowledge about nuclear waste repositories. These narratives can serve as cultural markers that signal the presence of danger.

The field of nuclear semiotics acknowledges the challenge of creating a communication system that can withstand the test of time, and it emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to find viable solutions for long-term nuclear waste management and safety.

[waded]

When those Priests gather together it’s called “Atomic Mass”

[dumpsterfire]

"Hmm, how do we keep this nuclear waste away from people?"
" *WE MAKE A CULT* "

[traffcnerebirth]

"use symbols"
"scary buildings"
"Brothers and Sisters of the Cult of Atom, we are gathered today to..."

[joelgarcia]

A series of Photos step by step! Showing how & what can potentially happen is the best way in my opinion

[cale]

Years of horror movies have taught me that anything with a warning label will eventually be opened.

[xelaander]

Atomic Priesthood sounds like a very dope triple A game that was rushed to release with a lot of bugs but gets better with patches over time

[marcelkelmendi]

Rough explanation:

(I am by no means an expert but I watched a video once and it comes down to 2 things, if I remember correctly.)

The semioticans that were responsible for developing the hazard and nuclear symbols sought out to create symbols that by mere observation intuitively implied danger, and secondly aren’t familiar in any way, so that even future generations could pick up on the indicator.

So they designed a few symbols that felt like they did the job and questioned a lot of people as to their evocation of danger and the familiarity of said symbols.

The 2 we know compared best and eventually got used as the official symbols for hazard and nuclear waste.

[ChokyoDK]

"Atomic priesthood" sounds badass icl

[tulio]

in 10k years the YouTube algorithm will recommend people this video.

[CedanyTheAlaskan]

bro wanted a children of atom from fallout in real life lol

[therealcriky]

i guarantee the nuclear priesthood is just every unemployed friend on a tuesday

[frotk]

Unexpectedly the scariest thing is the implication that society will have changed so much or even ended that we no longer communicate in remotely the same way for this to be a problem

[thrallgames]

"nothing of honour is here" Always liked that phrasing.

[amberfashing]

Atomic priesthood is a bad ass name for an alternative band

[Mohd.JohaibKhan]

Now imagine those movies of treasure hunt with lots of traps we had grown up watching.

[SchrödingerKousae]

Bro really played Fallout, saw the Church of the Children of Atom, and had been waiting for any reason to propose the idea.

[lighthawk]

Atomic Priesthood is how you get weird cults in Fallout...

[WesleyKwong]

*The first guy: Open the box, fucking dies*
*The second guy: NOTED*

[StoneInMySandal]

The Atomic Priesthood idea is the kind of long term thinking that has been lost. I like it.

[JohnJr]

I may sound stupid but I feel like with the modern technology and multilingual communication we’re at a place in time where we could use a warning sign in a modern day language, and people 10, 000 years from now would still be able to either understand it or translate it