The necessity for permanence : making a nuclear waste storage facility

The necessity for permanence : making a nuclear waste storage facility

Alternative Title: Making a nuclear waste storage facility

Author: Stupay, Robert Irving

Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70196

Other Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Advisor: Frank Miller.

Department: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date Issued: 1991

Abstract:

The United States Department of Energy is proposing to build a nuclear waste storage facility in southern Nevada. This facility will be designed to last 10,000 years. It must prevent the waste from contaminating the environment by either natural causes or by human intervention. This thesis investigates techniques of preventing curious or oblivious people from breaking into this highly toxic repository. It is a situation where the form must communicate meaning over many millennia in the absence of a cultural context.

Description:

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-75).

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70196

Keywords: Architecture.

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