Remembering Radioactive Waste
- 1. Universite de Bourgogne Franche-Comte, Laboratoire de sociologie et d'anthropologie - LaSA (France)
- 2. Centre d'investigation clinique, CHRU de Besancon, Inserm, CIC 1431 (France)
Description
Why are project leaders of radioactive waste geological disposal centre projects interested in the Giza pyramids, tsunami markers or time capsules? What are they looking for as they venture into the fields of landscape archaeology, archival science and the cognitive processes of intergenerational transmission? Based on a study of the reports produced by the teams of researchers mobilized in the early 1990's by the US Department of Energy and those from the Nuclear Energy Agency's international Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory across Generations program, this article aims to better understand the ways in which the actors involved in such projects try to ensure a memory capable of withstanding the multi-millennia durations engaged by certain types of radioactive waste. (authors)
Abstract (French)
Pourquoi les porteurs de projets de centres de stockage geologique de dechets radioactifs s'interessent-ils aux pyramides de Gizeh, aux marqueurs de tsunamis ou aux capsules temporelles? Que cherchent-ils en s'aventurant sur les terrains de l'archeologie du paysage, de l'archivistique et des processus cognitifs de la transmission intergenerationnelle? A partir de l'etude des rapports produits par les equipes de chercheurs mobilises au debut des annees 1990 par le Departement americain de l'energie et ceux issus du programme international Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory across Generations de l'Agence pour l'energie nucleaire, cet article vise a mieux comprendre les modalites par lesquelles les acteurs concernes par de tels projets tentent de s'assurer d'une memoire capable de resister aux durees plurimillenaires engagees par certains types de dechets radioactifs. (auteurs)Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Se souvenir des dechets radioactifs
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Socio-Anthropologie (Online)
- Journal Issue
- no.42
- Journal Page Range
- p. 123-137
- ISSN
- 1773-018X
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Descriptors DEI
- RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION; CULTURAL OBJECTS; PRESERVATION; TIME DEPENDENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT
Optional Information
- Notes
- 27 refs.