Workshop: Information and memory for future decision making – radioactive waste and beyond
Welcome to the webpage about the workshop: Information and memory for future decision making – radioactive waste and beyond
This was a workshop on preserving information and memory over centuries and millennia in the context of sustainable development and the future human environment.
Date: 21–23 May, 2019
Venue: Näringslivets Hus, Storgatan 19, Stockholm
The Organizing Committee
The workshop was co-hosted by:
• Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste (Kärnavfallsrådet)
• Linnaeus University
• National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet)
• Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM)
The Organizing Committee also includes members from the following Swedish entities:
• Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB)
• Östhammar Municipality
• Oskarshamn Municipality
• Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG)
• Stockholm University
Proceedings, Vision document and Guiding principles
The programme and presentations
- Programme
- Welcome - T. Hilding-Rydevik, Deputy chairperson, deputy chaiperson Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste
- The vision document - C. Pescatore Linnaeus University and Independent Consultant
- Cultural heritage, nuclear waste and the future - C. Holtorf and A. Högberg, Linnaeus University
- Social memory - C. Green, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Local perspectives on memory in the context of managing future waste legacies - A. Bergsten Östhammar Municipality, B. Liedberg-Jönsson Oskarshamn Municipality
- Perspectives from environmental organizations - J. Swahn, Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG)
- Role of the national archives in Sweden, especially with reference to future legacies - M. Geber, National Archives of Sweden
- The NEA RK&M project - S. Hotzel, Chair of RK&M group of the OECD/NEA
- Information and knowledge preservation over generations in a regulatory context - C-H. Pettersson, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority
- Final salutations - Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm, Chairperson, Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste
Reading before the Workshop
The Organizing committee requests that participants familiarize themselves with the following documents:
Additional reading
Read more about the OECD/NEA project Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) across Generations (for nuclear waste disposal) here