Nuclear Remains
On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values
$144.50
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
An ethnography of U.S. nuclear waste policy, and how to understand contemporary societies’ attempts to establish “good” relations with the future.
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, Bašak Sarač-Lesavre argues th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262052856 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262052857 |
| Author: | Basak Sarac-Lesavre |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
Critics Review
ENDORSEMENTS
“Nuclear Remains reckons with the far-distant future and our all-too-present energy landscape. Regulatory structures, anthropological encounters, and political economy crisscross in this remarkable, responsible, and visionary book—engaging policymakers and lay readers alike.”
—Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University; coauthor of Objectivity
“A meticulously researched empirical account of how unfolding material and political arrangements for the enduring containment of nuclear remains emerge amid the instabilities of conflicting, competing, and ever-evolving values and priorities.”
—Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
“Saraç-Lesavre’s beautiful book shows us that the problem with long-term thinking is not that we are bad at it, but that it is hard, and that this hardness is part of our political, epistemic, and moral identity.”
—Daniel Sarewitz, Emeritus Professor of Science and Society, Arizona State University
Basak Sarac-Lesavre
BaP#351;ak SaraP#231;-Lesavre is Assistant Professor in the Center for the Sociology of Organizations at Science Po, Paris, as well as an Affiliate at the University of Saint AndrewP#8217;s Center for Energy Ethics. She was awarded the French Fulbright Fellowship and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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