Nuclear Remains On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values (Inside Technology)

Contemporary societies are often criticized for their incapacity to account for the long term. Nuclear Remains asks what happens when a society decides to think long term-examining the US efforts to hold present and distant futures together.
Focusing on the case of the US nuclear waste program, Başak Saraç-Lesavre argues that no temporal orientation is inherently ethical; what matters is how temporal orientations construed as desirable get translated into action.
To analyze how concerned actors seek to establish "good" relations between past, present, and future, Saraç-Lesavre introduces the problem of rendez-vous framework-tracing how temporal gaps are identified and resolutions formulated and inscribed in different forms of arrangements. Her multisited ethnographic research takes readers from Congressional debates over funding-to reconcile accountability to and immunity from politics-to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where local actors have been trying to keep their community attached to nuclear futures.
Over time, these arrangements face tests. They are barely ever considered au rendez-vous when meeting contemporary conditions, yet they produce significant effects: material, economic, political, and moral relations, and ultimately, societies themselves. This framework applies broadly to cases where temporal relations are at stake: climate change adaptation, government of commons, pension schemes, energy transition, and care systems.

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