24110 MONUMENT

It takes 24,110 years for spent nuclear fuel to reach its half-life. Up until 2010, the United States was planning to bury 70,000 tons of nuclear waste created by nuclear powerplants across the country at a remote site in Nevada called Yucca Mountain.

24110 is an alternative proposal for a combined nuclear waste dump and memorial.

Proposed location: Washington D.C.

500 tons of radioactive plutonium buried within meters of energy policy makers: the White House, U.S. Congress, Senate, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

The project represents a design exploration as political discourse. The memorial is designed to express time and volatility, expose the source, and admit our fatuity.