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Radioactive wastes, once discarded with little concern for the spread of contamination, are now subject to concerted state-sponsored efforts to produce secure and effectively perpetual containment infrastructures. Current UK policy is to bury the wastes in a geological disposal facility. The siting of this facility depends on the identification not only of a site with suitable geology but one where residents are demonstrably willing to host the facility. The article focuses on the diverse 'commoning' practices that this voluntaristic policy has brought about, including the possibility of articulating a common good across diverse scales of time and place, of acknowledging the tensions between economic and ecological needs, and ultimately of struggling to reconfigure 'the commons' itself as a lived space of ongoing deliberation and intrinsic uncertainties.

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