Adventures in Risk Reduction: Oral History Project

Storytelling plays essential roles in how nuclear policy communities retain knowledge, perceive new challenges, and develop or regenerate expertise. When recorded and preserved as oral history, stories become a primary source that can help future generations understand events or provide data where the historical record is lacking.

This project will provide professional training on oral history methodology to policy researchers and analysts who seek to develop their skillsets, add primary source data to the historical record, elevate the role of storytelling in policy discourse, and expand their professional networks. Participants will apply their training to prepare, conduct, and publish oral history interviews with risk reduction practitioners. Published interviews will be featured at a capstone conference in 2026.

More information about this on-going project can be found here.