Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Transfer of Information Relevant to the Safety of Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities to Future Generations: What does it mean and is it a worry? Well, it depends on the context.
- In
- International Council on Archives, XV International Congress on Archives
- Imprint
- Vienna, Austria, 23-29 August 2004
- Format
- Abstract
This is a topic that has been of concern to the IAEA for some time and the concerns have come from within the nuclear industry but as well they have been reinforced by the concerns expressed by the community at large through such bodies as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, and through the popular media such as films like The China Syndrome. This presentation explores an IAEA report information transfer and preservation and the associated issues from the perspective of an archivist and cultural informatics specialist. For me this means, context, and how we can use contextual information to help society and the nuclear industry find a path forward that will lead to the effective management of radioactive waste. The outcomes and recommendations in the report focus on strategies not solutions and this represents a change in approach for the industry which until recently had primarily seen the answer in engineered solutions. As the timescales involved are so long and things are changing so fast we are forced to ask if there is evidence that we should believe we can do this?