Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites
The burial of radioactive waste in deep geological repositories has gradually imposed itself since the 1980s in various countries. Considered more stable, safe, and responsible than storage above ground, this solution is seen as a way of keeping the waste out of human reach, and of freeing oneself o...
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| author | Simon Calla Christian Guinchard Alexandre Moine Nanta Novello-Paglianti Laure Nuninger Laetitia Ogorzelec-Guinchard |
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| description | The burial of radioactive waste in deep geological repositories has gradually imposed itself since the 1980s in various countries. Considered more stable, safe, and responsible than storage above ground, this solution is seen as a way of keeping the waste out of human reach, and of freeing oneself of the obligation to monitor repositories. However, it soon became clear that the idea of relying on the relative stability of deep geological repositories for the safe disposal of nuclear waste to remove it from the ‘all too human’ risks associated with history’s turbulences, has produced new uncertainties, and raised new questions, given the multi-millennial time scales involved. This article presents a study of the strategies adopted by the actors in charge of radioactive waste management in the face of the temporal constraints imposed by the length of their radioactive life. More specifically, it is intended to question the representations of temporality that allow the designers of these projects to assume their responsibilities by transmitting information and warnings towards to an extremely distant future, to recipients who are not easily representable and for whom they already have a responsibility even though they do not yet exist. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9fc875d87a984aac9031dd6347ceb06d2024-02-03T14:27:41ZengThe White Horse PressWorldwide Waste2399-71172023-01-01611110.5334/wwwj.7584Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial SitesSimon Calla0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-0801Christian Guinchard1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8377-5650Alexandre Moine2Nanta Novello-Paglianti3Laure Nuninger4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5329-719XLaetitia Ogorzelec-Guinchard5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1389-718XUniversité de Franche-Comté – LaSA, MSHEUniversité de Franche-Comté – LaSA, MSHEUniversité de Franche-Comté – ThémA, MSHEUniversité de Franche-Comté – CIMEOS, MSHECNRS – MSHE – Chrono-EnvironnementUniversité de Franche-Comté – LaSA, MSHEThe burial of radioactive waste in deep geological repositories has gradually imposed itself since the 1980s in various countries. Considered more stable, safe, and responsible than storage above ground, this solution is seen as a way of keeping the waste out of human reach, and of freeing oneself of the obligation to monitor repositories. However, it soon became clear that the idea of relying on the relative stability of deep geological repositories for the safe disposal of nuclear waste to remove it from the ‘all too human’ risks associated with history’s turbulences, has produced new uncertainties, and raised new questions, given the multi-millennial time scales involved. This article presents a study of the strategies adopted by the actors in charge of radioactive waste management in the face of the temporal constraints imposed by the length of their radioactive life. More specifically, it is intended to question the representations of temporality that allow the designers of these projects to assume their responsibilities by transmitting information and warnings towards to an extremely distant future, to recipients who are not easily representable and for whom they already have a responsibility even though they do not yet exist.https://account.worldwidewastejournal.com/index.php/up/article/view/75radioactive wastewaste managementlong-time scaletransmissionmemoryfrance |
| spellingShingle | Simon Calla Christian Guinchard Alexandre Moine Nanta Novello-Paglianti Laure Nuninger Laetitia Ogorzelec-Guinchard Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites Worldwide Waste radioactive waste waste management long-time scale transmission memory france |
| title | Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites |
| title_full | Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites |
| title_fullStr | Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites |
| title_full_unstemmed | Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites |
| title_short | Confronting the Uncertainties Associated with Long-Time Scales: Analysis of the Modes of Preservation of Memory of Radioactive Waste Burial Sites |
| title_sort | confronting the uncertainties associated with long time scales analysis of the modes of preservation of memory of radioactive waste burial sites |
| topic | radioactive waste waste management long-time scale transmission memory france |
| url | https://account.worldwidewastejournal.com/index.php/up/article/view/75 |
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