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PHOTOS: Drag in a picture placeholder, size it first, click in it and insert a photo from the menu. TABLES: You can copy and paste a table from an external document onto this poster template. To adjust the way the text fits within the cells of a table that has been pasted, right-click on the table, click FORMAT SHAPE then click on TEXT BOX and change the INTERNAL MARGIN values to 0.25. Modifying the color scheme To change the color scheme of this template go to the DESIGN menu and click on COLORS. You can choose from the provided color combinations or create your own. © 2013 PosterPresentations.com 2117 Fourth Street, Unit C Berkeley CA 94710 posterpresenter@gmail.com The Hanford nuclear reservation, a former plutonium production site and current nuclear waste site, is one of the most contaminated sites in North America, and is currently undergoing one of the largest environmental remediation efforts ever undertaken. This effort poses the technologically and scientifically difficult challenge of cleaning millions of tons of soil, water, and industrial facilities. Hanford also presents a complex sociopolitical challenge, however, that involves negotiating both the troubling legacies of the past including the history of intentional releases of Iodine- 131 and other radionuclides during the cold war and U.S.-American Indian relations in the regionand the urgencies of the presentincluding large cuts in government funding. It also involves very different anticipations of the future. Given the long half-lives of many of the contaminants at Hanford, long-term anticipation and imagination is implicit in much of technoscientific, sociocultural, and political activity that surrounds this site, and understanding how these different futures shape nuclear waste sites is the central concern of this project. It will pay particular attention to how various conceptions of intergenerational ethics or justice are formed and mobilized, implicitly and explicitly, by the subjects of this study. This project will attempt to use insights gained from an ethnography of the Hanford nuclear reservation to attempt to understand not only the long term implications of remediation efforts, but also the implications of different ways of thinking (or not- thinking) in the long-term about the environmental legacy that is being left to posterity. In a context of continuing environmental devastation on local, regional, and global scales, ethnographies of both environmental remediation and intergenerational consciousness will be crucial to building a critical understandingand a critical politicsof the future. IntroductionField Sites This investigation will take the form of an ethnographic fieldwork in Richland, WA and the surrounding region, along with interviews with experts and other relevant actors around the country. I plan to engage stakeholders, scientists, engineers, activists, and policymakers involved with remediation efforts at Hanford in conversations about they see the past and future of the site affecting the present situation at Hanford, and their work in particular. I will also rely on the analysis of documents and other information produced by government agencies and other important actors, participant observation at key meetings and events, and comparative analyses, for which other waste sites such as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico and Sellafield in the U.K. will likely be particularly important. Methods 1.How are future imaginaries generated in the present, and how do they affect contemporary politics and knowledge production relevant to nuclear waste and remediation? 2.How are intergenerational ethics negotiated in debates about environmental remediation and nuclear waste? Research Problems Contact Information Email: delatp@rpi.edudelatp@rpi.edu Hanford Nuclear Reservation Since plutonium production ended in the late 1980s, Hanford has become one of the largest environmental remediation efforts in the world. It also houses an operating low level radioactive waste dump, and a national laboratory, and has had a major effect on efforts to site a national high-level nuclear waste repository. Hanford has recently been in the news because several large tanks of radioactive wastes were found to be leaking into the soil, even as a large portion of Hanfords workforce was scheduled to be terminated or furloughed because of sequestration. It is located on the Columbia River in Washington State. PhD. Student, Science and Technology Studies Pedro de la Torre III Contaminated Futures: Intergenerational Ethics and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Richland, WA This small city borders the Hanford nuclear radiation, and houses many of the remediation workers, scientists, and other involved with the day to day work of the site. It is also the home of the Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science and Technology, and most of the stakeholder and public involvement activities related to site cleanup. This is likely where I would reside during the vast majority of my fieldwork. Activities & Questions Attending Hanford Advisory Board Meetings What are the political dynamics of stakeholder governance of site? What are the key controversies? Semi-structured interviews What kind of intergenerational ethics are used or implied by subjects? How do subjects generate anticipations, predictions, and representations of the future, and how do they impact their politics and knowledge production practices? Attend meetings of relevant organizations & movements What kinds of politics (and, thus, intergenerational ethics and future imaginaries) are left out of stakeholder processes? Examine archives How have future imaginaries surrounding Hanford changed and why? Hanford site tours How is the historical legacy of Hanford being crafted by the DoE? Attend community meetings & events How have the activities at Hanford shaped the future imaginaries and present situation of various communities? Attend relevant hearings and events in Washington, DC What is the relationship between remediation efforts at Hanford and national policy and politics surrounding nuclear waste and environmental cleanup? Basic research and project design currently underway Preliminary field site visit planned for early June Current Stage of Research