Hi Andy
I don't know Entrikin's paper but the waste site that he/Tim is referring to is probably the US Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for transuranic wastes at Carlsbad, New Mexico. US DOE commissioned some interesting work into the problem of how to mark the site in order to ensure that there was no human intrusion in the far distant future. The original DOE reports can be found online but the case is described/discussed in Peter van Wyk's "Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma and Nuclear Threat", University of Minnesota Press, 2009. This issue of nuclear (waste) landscapes and (very) long term collective memory is also the focus of the film by Michael Madsen that someone else mentioned (originally "Into Eternity"; DVD now entitled "Nuclear Eternity", I think). While on the subject of films, and as a complement to the Zonabend book I suggested in my email, you could also look for "Au Payes du Nucleaire" by French filmmaker Esther Hoffenberg, about the 'nuclear landscape' around the Cap de la Hague reprocessing plant, France's Sellafield (there is a version with English subtitles) - see website for distribution info: http://www.estherhoffenberg.fr/film003.html
Peter
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