EPA regulates for 1-million years!!

[ZeroHaven]

Sorry, no conspiracy fodder just an amazing factoid.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/" target="top">EPA's proposed amendments</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> provide added protection for public health from radioactive materials in the planned high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada by extending its standards to cover the time period up to 1 million years into the future.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>at the first link..<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Under the standards, people living close to the facility would not receive total radiation higher than natural levels people experience routinely in other areas of the country. <br>"It is an unprecedented scientific challenge to develop proposed standards today that will protect the next 25,000 generations of Americans,"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>Yeah no kidding!! <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/ZeroHaven/tinhat.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

[Corvidaerex]

All nuke-waste administrators certainly *hope* to regulate the storage / dumps for that long! When my wife used to do that kind of work, one of her projects was coming up with a sign / code language that might communicate the dangers of nuke waste to future civilizations, and then figure ways to make the signs survive for 10s of thousands of years. <br><br>It was gov't / DOE contract stuff so of course nothing will be finished in our lifetimes ... but interesting to imagine how you might communicate such ideas to whatever kind of intelligent life might be around in the distant future. <p></p><i></i>