Knowledge preservation and long-term documentation

Long-term documentation is pivotal in preserving information and knowledge about repositories over a long period of time. In accordance with its legal mandate, BASE is in charge of permanently storing analogue and digital information regarding the interim and final storage of radioactive waste.

1. The core tasks of long-term documentation include the collection and preservation of data and documents that are or may become significant. How does BASE go about analogue and digital archiving?
2. Finding and understanding the processed and cross-linked information is complemented by knowledge management measures. What activities contribute to the utilisation of knowledge about nuclear waste disposal?
3. The preservation of memory is the consequence of our ethical obligation to future generations. How can knowledge about the existence of a repository be preserved in the long term? What role could nuclear semiotics play in this?
4. Some of the public proposals for long-term documentation seem rather bizarre. Could "radiation cats" really serve as a warning of a radioactive hazard? And what is behind the so-called nuclear priesthood?