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The article references someone worrying about the problem of marking future radioactive waste dumps, but doesn't mention how real ones are marked. Here's a real one.[1]

That's the marker at the SL-1 reactor burial site in Idaho, from 1962. It's a stone slab, etched with a "no pedestrians" road sign symbol, a radiation trefoil, and a bottle with a skull and crossbones. Already it looks dated.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/SL-1Buri...



I think the skull and bones will be a good symbol for millions of years, unless evolution takes a really weird turn.




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