The accumulation of radioactive waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain storage site poses a challenge: how do you permanently label it? Engineers like Patrick Charton are trying to solve the problem — but even the award-winning designer Michael Bierut knows just how hard that is. [Produced for PRI‘s “Studio 360“.]
Classic radioactive fallout symbol from the twentieth century.
Music featured:
- “My Backyard” – by Shuttle358
- “A Long Way Down” – by Brian Eno
- “Broken Monitors” – by B. Fleischmann
- “Raiders of the Lost Ark: Raiders’ March” – by John Williams