{"id":851,"date":"2026-05-11T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/?p=851"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:28:47","slug":"producing-and-organising-nuclear-time-book-talk-and-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/2026\/05\/11\/producing-and-organising-nuclear-time-book-talk-and-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Producing and Organising Nuclear Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Book Talk and Workshop<br><strong>11 May 2026, University of Exeter<br><\/strong><em>Funded by the Nuclear Waste Services<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were delighted to welcome Professor Penny Harvey from the University of Manchester to speak to us about her work-in-progress monograph on the temporalities of nuclear waste management. Her book explores how nuclear power produces a range of distinctive and incommensurable temporal logics, and how extensive effort is invested in organising (and realigning) these through policy, engineering, and engagement practices. She draws on a wealth of ethnographic evidence, including her experiences as Deputy Chair of the UK&#8217;s Committee for Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were also pleased to be joined by two discussants: Professor Laura Salisbury from the University of Exeter and Dr. Siegfried Evens from Link\u00f6ping University. Dr. Evens is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sussex Policy Research Unit and the Sussex Energy Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to Professor Harvey and our two discussants for such a rich and engaging discussion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/IMG_6560-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/IMG_6560-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/IMG_6560-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/IMG_6560-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/IMG_6560-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/IMG_6560-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>From left to right: Willow Ross, Professor Laura Salisbury, Professor Penny Harvey, Professor Karen Bickerstaff, Dr. Siegfred Evens, Dr. Leila Dawney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Talk and Workshop11 May 2026, University of ExeterFunded by the Nuclear Waste Services We were delighted to welcome Professor Penny Harvey from the University of Manchester to speak to us about her work-in-progress monograph on the temporalities of nuclear waste management. 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