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Yeah, these monuments are pretty... rad

whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding

Some of those "experts" proposed genetically engineering a bioluminescent breed of dogs to detect when radiation is nearby, and making viral pop songs about "when the dog starts glowing, run very far away"...

I think some of them got a little too imaginative. Sometimes you think so abstractly that you miss the obvious.

For instance, Carl Sagan suggested we simply mark them with a skull and crossbones, which every organism with an endoskeleton can recognize as a symbol for "death" and thus "danger."

Because they need that byproduct for the bombs.

Because of their effect, their media positioning, and their cost. These monuments are from the 20th century, when clean alternatives were more expensive and less efficient, so the defunding of nuclear directly fed into increased fossil fuel consumption. And thus into increased pollution, climate change, war, and airborne radioactive waste. Any activist could have seen this.

As for media positioning, it is always very clear whether corporate media support or oppose a cause. Climate activists are disruptive weirdos that get arrested while people whose lives they slightly inconvenienced are interviewed over shots of backed up traffic or a wide-angle shot of a handful of activists amidst a lot of context. Anti-nuclear activists are concerned citizens who get interviewed to low crowd shots that show even small groups as a throng, or lower-middle class moms and pops interviewed at home about their worries for their kids' health, cut with ominous shots of drinkwater-safe water vapor coming from cooling towers.

As for cost, first there's the monuments themselves. Grassroots activism tends to have lots of people with hodgepodge equipment, while astroturfing has fancy tools and either a handful of people to operate them or contractors. These monuments are massive projects built by contractors designed by handfuls of individuals. It fits the pattern.

Second, there's all of the expensive storage. No capitalist government is going to waste millions of dollars listening to their people's objectively excessive safety concerns, unless it directly benefits the rich people they have made corrupt deals with. Nuclear safety laws were designed to keep nuclear power more expensive than fossil fuels, because if the safety standards were reasonable then it would blow fossil fuels out of the water and threaten the justification for funding the military-industrial complex.

Even now, a quarter of the way through the 21st century, if nuclear power safety standards were reduced merely to those of wind turbines and solar panels - where people regularly die from falling, electrical fires, electrocution, etc. - nuclear power would probably be cheaper than renewables.

Nuclear cats deemed too unlucky to keep around because they keep getting eaten by radioactive wolves

The nuclear priests are obviously hiding something of great value from us, we must kill them and take it for ourselves!

And we add a tectonic plate on top for good measure

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I am gonna need a children's books version with pictures if i ever want to learn about that.

no its a terrible idea because i was late.