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UN watchdog unveils new symbol for radiation risk
al-Reuters via Yahoo ^
| Feb. 15, 2007
| Staff
Posted on 02/16/2007 8:00:30 AM PST by Schnucki
VIENNA - The U.N. nuclear watchdog introduced on Thursday a new radiation warning symbol showing emanating waves, a skull and crossbones, and a running person.
It will supplement the existing three-cornered trefoil symbol which "has no intuitive meaning and little recognition beyond those educated in its significance," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.
The new symbol was designed after a five-year study involving 1,650 people of varying ages and backgrounds in 11 countries to "ensure that its message of 'danger, stay away' was crystal clear and understood by all."
The IAEA said the new symbol would help reduce deaths and injuries from accidental exposure to ionizing radiation.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: atomic; iaea; nuclear; nuclearweapons; radition
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:00:31 AM PST
by
Schnucki
To: Schnucki
The "running person". Did they get that idea from the French delegate?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:01:39 AM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: Schnucki
That symbol looks like radiation is affecting some pirates and D.R.I. fans...
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:02:22 AM PST
by
akorahil
(Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
To: Schnucki
Not a bad ROP symbol, either........
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:02:46 AM PST
by
fishtank
To: Schnucki
Are they making a version big enough to stick on Iran ??
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:04:09 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: Schnucki
The original one was much easier to draw/paint/etc.
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:04:18 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( New Update to Abortion Section of FRhomepage: it's now the Abortion/Euthanasia Section, for one.)
To: Schnucki
Um, let's see... if a fan is blowing and you see a skull, black guys are supposed to run away. Got it, makes sense to me.
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:04:43 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
To: Schnucki
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:05:08 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Have you seen Rick Perry's brain? Neither has he!)
To: Schnucki
The fan is cooling hot pirates and underhand javelin throwers?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:05:20 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
To: raybbr
Hey, if I know theres radiation, youll see me running too, haha. I dont think its a french thing.
To: Schnucki
I thought it was the IAEA Logo. Roughly translated it means
"Murderous thugs have radioactive bombs, so we must beat feet back to Bern".
Public studies showed that an alternate logo featuring a human figure with his head up his own arse was unclear, because it could be applied to almost any UN Organization.
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:06:11 AM PST
by
bondjamesbond
(No matter how PC you are, there's always somebody more PC than you, to condemn you as un-PC.)
To: isthisnickcool
Some people could interpret it that way.
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:06:34 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( New Update to Abortion Section of FRhomepage: it's now the Abortion/Euthanasia Section, for one.)
To: Schnucki
Did they get a kickback from the Sticker industry?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:06:53 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
To: raybbr
Maybe they should have shown someone sauntering away?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:07:23 AM PST
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: Schnucki
OK, the new version clearly pictos the "danger" message, but if the trefoil symbol "is not intuitively" recognised, how do the illiterates of the world know any better from this marker what it is from which they are supposed to run or die?
Wonder how much money the UN spent in five years to come up with this useless frippery? Perhaps as much as they have spent on supressing violence in Darfur to about as much effect?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:09:14 AM PST
by
barkeep
(Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
To: Schnucki
The Original
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:09:42 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Schnucki
The new symbol was designed after a five-year study involving 1,650 people of varying ages and backgrounds in 11 countries to "ensure that its message of 'danger, stay away' was crystal clear and understood by all." Well, there's a solution just waiting for a problem.
How much money was taken out of my taxes for this?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:11:46 AM PST
by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: Schnucki
If you're on the bottom of the ocean, and you see a submarine lifting towards the surface, then you should do "the robot" away from the disco "skull and crossbones" display?
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:12:29 AM PST
by
villagerjoel
(Give me liberty, or give me death!)
To: Schnucki
OK, start in the lower left.
Pirate = ARRRRR (everybody knows this)
= RRRRRRadiation!
= RRRRRRun!
To: fishtank
Not a bad ROP symbol, either........ Works for me:
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posted on
02/16/2007 8:36:53 AM PST
by
ChuxsterS
(Hillary Clinton is a F***ing shrew bastard)
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