Nuclear Waste Forums & Futures: Insights and Imagination from the 3CAZ Project
Join us on January 13, 2026 at ASU Skysong for an afternoon and evening of conversation, reflection, and imagination about ASU’s Department of Energy-funded project to inform a collaborative siting process for nuclear waste management.
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Over the past two years, our team has worked with partners across Arizona to host public forums and dialogues about the collaborative siting of spent nuclear fuel facilities and create new tools for supporting those conversations. This two-part workshop will begin with a demonstration and results overview of the 3CAZ Forums that brought together hundreds of Arizonans, from high school students to local leaders, to deliberate on what collaboration among communities and the federal government should look like and the future of nuclear waste management. The second half of the workshop will include an engaging panel to launch the book: Our Radioactive Neighbors: Collaborative Imagination, Community Futures, and Nuclear Siting Practices,which uses fiction, original artwork, and essays to explore challenges for collaborative siting and the future of spent nuclear fuel management.
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Time: 2:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Arizona State University SkySong Building 3, 1475 North Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Room: Building 3, Room 130 – Synergy I
Draft Agenda
Part 1: Sharing and Forum Demonstration (2:00 – 4:30pm)
- Introduction to the 3CAZ project
- Forum activity demonstration and discussion
- Overview of forum results
Part 2: Reflection and Imagination (5:00 – 7:30pm)
- Dinner and poster walk
- Our Radioactive Neighbors: Collaborative Imagination, Community Futures, and Nuclear Siting Practices book panel and discussion
- Discussion and activities exploring forum results, civic engagement, and storytelling about the future of nuclear waste management
