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- Title
Nuclear Waste Facing the Test of Time: The Case of the French Deep Geological Repository Project.
- Authors
Poirot-Delpech, Sophie; Raineau, Laurence
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to consider the socio-anthropological issues raised by the deep geological repository project for high-level, long-lived nuclear waste. It is based on fieldwork at a candidate site for a deep storage project in eastern France, where an underground laboratory has been studying the feasibility of the project since 1999. A project of this nature, based on the possibility of very long containment (hundreds of thousands of years, if not longer), involves a singular form of time. By linking project performance to geology's very long timescale, the project attempts 'jump' in time, focusing on a far distant future, without understanding it in terms of generations. But these future generations remain measurements of time on the surface, where the issue of remembering or forgetting the repository comes to the fore. The nuclear waste geological storage project raises questions that neither politicians nor scientists, nor civil society, have ever confronted before. This project attempts to address a problem that exists on a very long timescale, which involves our responsibility toward generations in the far future.
- Subjects
RADIOACTIVE waste storage; GEOLOGICAL repositories; FEASIBILITY studies; PROJECT management; SOCIAL responsibility
- Publication
Science & Engineering Ethics, 2016, Vol 22, Issue 6, p1813
- ISSN
1353-3452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11948-015-9739-9