ABSTRACT
Public policies on topics such as nuclear waste management are implemented through the deployment of a diverse range of evaluation tools, including economic ones. The investigation of those tools – their displacements, and their configurations – offers a novel account of national nuclear waste policies in the making. Furthermore, these tools serve as mediators in processes whereby the moral, technical and political aspects of public policies are negotiated and reconfigured. Nuclear waste indeed implies uncompressible – even incomprehensible – timescales of hazard. Its temporality is located at the margins of calculation, measurement and expertise.
