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Vincent Ialenti

Vincent Ialenti is an American anthropologist who studies the culture of nuclear energy and weapons waste organizations.[1] He is the author of Deep Time Reckoning,[2] an anthropological exploration of how experts assessed the potential impact of Finland's Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository on future ecosystems and civilization.[3][4][5]

Vincent Ialenti
Born
Gardner, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education
OccupationAnthropologist
Employer(s)Office of Nuclear Energy, United States Department of Energy
Notable workDeep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (2020)

Ialenti has been on the research faculty at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs[6][7] and has held fellowships at the University of Southern California,[8] the University of British Columbia,[9] The Berggruen Institute,[10] and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities.[11]

Ialenti currently works in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy,[12][13] advising leadership on efforts to implement participatory and consent-based approaches to siting spent nuclear fuel facilities.[14][15] He is also a Research Associate in California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt's Department of Environmental Studies.[16]

Biography

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Ialenti holds a BA in "Philosophy, Politics, and Law" from Binghamton University, an MSc in "Law, Anthropology, and Society" from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Cornell University.[17][18] At Cornell, Ialenti taught an interdisciplinary writing seminar called Nuclear Imagination: Technology and Worlds.[19][20]

In 2017, Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics.[21][22] Later that year, Helsingin Sanomat published a front-page human interest story about his anthropological search for insights left behind by an enigmatic nuclear waste expert he called Seppo.[23][24]

In 2018, Ialenti was a Nuclear Security Innovation Network Fellow in the N Square Collaborative, a nuclear threat awareness collective funded by the Carnegie Corporation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Ploughshares Fund.[25] He also served on the U.S. Membership Committee of Northwestern University's trans-Pacific think-tank Meridian 180.[26]

From 2017 to 2019, Ialenti conducted a field study exploring the political, economic, and organizational drivers behind transuranic nuclear weapons waste "drum breach" accidents at Idaho National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.[27][28][29] He developed this study in collaboration with geologist Allison Macfarlane, the former Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[30]

MIT Press and Penguin Random House published Ialenti's first book, Deep Time Reckoning, in 2020.[31] The book examined Finnish nuclear waste company Posiva's efforts to make reductive, pragmatic models of far future societies, bodies, and ecosystems—and how their efforts were enabled by the Finnish populace's relatively high levels of trust in geotechnical engineers, regulators, and ministry experts.[32][33][34]

In 2021, Ialenti became the first cultural anthropologist with an article published in the American Nuclear Society's technical journal Nuclear Technology.[35][36] Later that year, Ialenti was featured alongside ambient musician Brian Eno in a Headspace meditation podcast about long-term thinking.[37]

Ialenti currently leads the U.S. Department of Energy's Consent-based Siting Consortia: a group of twelve transdisciplinary project teams - drawn from academia, nonprofits, and the private sector - awarded $24m to facilitate public engagement and build community capacity for siting a federal consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.[38][39][40][41]

Personal life

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Ialenti is married to conservationist Allegra Wrocklage.[42] They reside in Los Angeles, California, after having moved from Vancouver, Canada.[43]

Ialenti is an Associate of the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, California.[44]

Books

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  • Ialenti, Vincent (2020). Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262539265.

References

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  3. ^ Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (November 27, 2020). "Learning to think long-term Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now Vincent Ialenti MIT Press, 2020. 208 pp". Science. 370 (6520): 1043. doi:10.1126/science.abf2843. ISSN 0036-8075. S2CID 227171422. Archived from the original on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
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  6. ^ George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs (2022). "Active Faculty 2021-2022" (PDF).
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  13. ^ "TITRATION: Radioactive Waste, Princeton, & the Navajo Nation". Anthropology@Princeton. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
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  20. ^ "Fall 2016 First-Year Writing Seminars | John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines". knight.as.cornell.edu. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  21. ^ Ialenti, Vincent (October 1, 2017). "Death and succession among Finland's nuclear waste experts". Physics Today. 70 (10): 48–53. Bibcode:2017PhT....70j..48I. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3728. ISSN 0031-9228. S2CID 158875146.
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  23. ^ Ialenti, Vincent (June 2020). "Spectres of Seppo: the afterlives of Finland's nuclear waste experts". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 26 (2): 251–268. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.13247. ISSN 1359-0987. S2CID 216336421.
  24. ^ "Eräänä kesäiltana Seppo kaatui ja kuoli – se oli vakava paikka, sillä tämä raivokas nero yksin tiesi kaiken siitä, miten Suomen ydinjäte haudataan turvallisesti". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). November 12, 2017. Archived from the original on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
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  27. ^ "Historical Society Dives Into LANL's Infamous Kitty Litter Drum". ladailypost.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2022. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
  28. ^ Ialenti, Vincent (July 2022). "Boiling sand, metallic fire: Technopolitics and temporal form in an Idaho nuclear waste accident". American Ethnologist. 49 (3): 387–400. doi:10.1111/amet.13089. ISSN 0094-0496. S2CID 250232581.
  29. ^ Ialenti, Vincent (June 2021). "Drum breach: Operational temporalities, error politics and WIPP's kitty litter nuclear waste accident". Social Studies of Science. 51 (3): 364–391. doi:10.1177/0306312720986609. ISSN 0306-3127. PMID 33413044. S2CID 231195443. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  30. ^ ""Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" Book Talk by Dr. Vincent Ialenti". School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Archived from the original on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
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  33. ^ Pasqualetti, Martin J. (August 25, 2021). "DEEP TIME RECKONING: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now". Geographical Review. 113 (2): 290–292. doi:10.1080/00167428.2021.1972674. ISSN 0016-7428. S2CID 238699622. Archived from the original on September 10, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
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  36. ^ Ialenti, Vincent (September 2, 2021). "Mankala Chronicles: Nuclear Energy Financing and Cooperative Corporate Form in Finland". Nuclear Technology. 207 (9): 1377–1393. Bibcode:2021NucTe.207.1377I. doi:10.1080/00295450.2020.1868890. ISSN 0029-5450. S2CID 233606034. Archived from the original on September 10, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
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