{{Short description|Task Force convened on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy}} {{more footnotes|date=January 2017}}

The '''Human Interference Task Force''' was a team of engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavioral scientists and others convened on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and Bechtel Corp. to find a way to reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive waste isolation systems.<ref>{{cite tech report|publisher=Battelle Memorial Institute, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation|url=https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6799619|title=Reducing the likelihood of future human activities that could affect geologic high-level waste repositories|year=1984|location=Columbus, Ohio, United States of America|language=English|access-date=2021-05-31|archive-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215240/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6799619|url-status=live}}</ref> == See also ==

* {{annotated link|Hazard symbol}} * {{annotated link|Long-term nuclear waste warning messages}} * {{annotated link|Ray cat}}

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

==Further reading== {{refbegin|2}} * Roland Posner (Hg.): ''Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft&nbsp;– Atommüll als Kommunikationsproblem''. Raben-Verlag, München, {{ISBN|3-922696-65-1}} * J. Kreusch und H. Hirsch: ''Sicherheitsprobleme der Endlagerung radioaktiver Abfälle in Salz''. Gruppe Ökologie, Hannover 1984 * Umberto Eco: ''The search for the perfect language'', Wiley-Blackwell, 1995, pages 176–177. {{ISBN|0-631-17465-6}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2sDMxqbibS0C&pg=PA176 The Search for the Perfect Language] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181504/https://books.google.com/books?id=2sDMxqbibS0C&pg=PA176 |date=2021-07-09 }} * Vincent Ialenti: [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-time-reckoning Deep Time Reckoning] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616121008/https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-time-reckoning |date=2021-06-16 }}, The MIT Press, 2020, {{ISBN| 9780262539265}}. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-time-reckoning Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616121008/https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-time-reckoning |date=2021-06-16 }} * Thomas A. Sebeok; ''Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia'' (Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Memorial Institute, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, 1984) * Sebastian Musch: "The Atomic Priesthood and Nuclear Waste Management - Religion, Sci-fi Literature and the End of our Civilization". Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science, Volume 51, Issue 3, p. 626–639. * Sebastian Musch: "Hans Jonas, Günther Anders, and the Atomic Priesthood: An Exploration into Ethics, Religion and Technology in the Nuclear Age". ''Religions'' 2021, Volume 12, Issue 9. [https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/9/741/htm Hans Jonas, Günther Anders, and the Atomic Priesthood: An Exploration into Ethics, Religion and Technology in the Nuclear Age] {{refend}}

==External links== * [http://www.castor.de/technik/endlager/spiegelfeuer.html Spiegelfeuer] (Der Spiegel) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224633/http://www.tu-cottbus.de/techphil/Forschung/Wfdz/wfdz99band2.pdf TU Cottbus - Wissen für die Zukunft] (PDF, 527 kB) * [http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/01sp200a/students/enricaLovaglio/pandora/Pandora.html Pandora's Box: How and Why to Communicate 10,000 Years into the Future (Th. A. Sebeok)] * [http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/4X/04714157/047141574X.pdf The Trouble with Pictures], first chapter from John Mans "Alpha Beta" (pdf, 105 kB) * [http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6799619-fpYg48/6799619.pdf Human Interference Task Force ''Reducing the Likelihood of Future Human Activities That Could Affect Geologic High-level Waste Repositories''. Technical Report, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, 1984.] * [http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/benford.html excerpt from "Deep Time" ] by Gregory Benford * [http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/signs-of-danger Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma and Nuclear Threat (Peter C. van Wyck) ] * [http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ "Ten Thousand Years"], by Roman Mars, ''99% Invisible'' * [https://www.academia.edu/27875581/The_Atomic_Priesthood_and_Nuclear_Waste_Management_-_Religion_Sci-fi_Literature_and_the_End_of_our_Civilization Sebastian Musch: The Atomic Priesthood and Nuclear Waste Management - Religion, Sci-fi Literature and the End of our Civilization] * [https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/9/741/htm Sebastian Musch: Hans Jonas, Günther Anders, and the Atomic Priesthood: An Exploration into Ethics, Religion and Technology in the Nuclear Age] Category:Semiotics Category:Radioactive waste {{nuclear-energy-stub}} {{waste-stub}}