This week's edition—about designing warning symbols for nuclear waste that will last for the next 10,000 years—can be played below. Or keep reading to learn more. In 1990, the federal ...

WIPP, the nuclear waste repository in the New Mexico desert, envisages crafting gigantic blocks of stone engraved with symbols designed to last for thousands of years, and putting huge earthen ...

Until humans start showing symptoms, biological hazards are practically impossible to spot. But there are symbols that can prevent that from happening. Like this one: Since it was first designed ...

More than three decades after that revelation, the nuclear waste dump remains in Lanyu, a painful reminder for the Tao of the government’s broken promises, and a symbol for Taiwan’s Indigenous ...

What happens to a nuclear-powered ship when ... understanding the builders' language or symbols. This is why Americans planning the security of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) established ...

Could we pass on the warning or knowledge about buried nuclear waste not through pictures or symbols or anything written down but simply by telling each other stories about it? It may seem a very ...