"This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."

APPENDIX F: TEAM A REPORT: MARKING THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT FOR 10,000 YEARS

5.3 Personal thoughts (WS)

(c) The very exercise of designing, building, and viewing markers creates powerful testimony addressed to today’s society about the full environmental, social, and economic costs of using nuclear materials. We can never know if we indeed have successfully communicated with our descendants 400 generations removed, but we can, in any case, perhaps convey an important message to ourselves.

Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter
Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Prepared by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Department of Energy, 1993