CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The field of nuclear semiotics arose in 1981 when a team of engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavioral scientists and others was convened on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and Bechtel Corp. The goal of this " Human Interference Task Force " was to find a way to reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive waste isolation systems. Specifically, the task force was to research ways to prevent future access to the deep geological nuclear repository of Yucca Mountain . 1 Problem 2 Proposals 3 Answers 3.1 Thomas Sebeok 3.2 Stanisław Lem 3.3 Françoise Bastide and Paolo Fabbri 3.4 Vilmos Voigt 3.5 Emil Kowalski 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Problem [ edit ] When atomic or fusion bombs ar...