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Perhaps you've seen the long-term nuclear waste warnings, which researchers developed in the 1980s, creating the field of nuclear semiotics.
Stones, Clocks, and What We Should Actually Leave Behind Condé Nast 2020
deinonychus commented on the word nuclear semiotics
"Nuclear semiotics was created in 1981 when a team of engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavior scientists and others was convened on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and Bechtel Corp. The goal of this workgroup (the "Human Interference Task Force") was to find the means to reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive waste isolation systems."
The suggestions include radiation cats, atomic priesthood, and atomic flowers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_semiotics
January 16, 2012