How to remember a place to forget? The semiotic design of deep geological nuclear repositories, from long-term communication to memory transmission

Drawing on the field of nuclear semiotics, this article critically discusses the classic problem of marking the location of a deep geological repository to communicate – in the distant future – its presence and potential threats to intruders. The article is divided into two parts. The first part rev...

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