[1] He is the author of Deep Time Reckoning,[2] an anthropological exploration of how experts assessed the potential impact of Finland's Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository on future ecosystems and civilization.
[3][4][5] Ialenti works in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy,[6][7] where he leads DOE's Consent-Based Siting Consortia: twelve project teams - drawn from academia, nonprofits, and the private sector - awarded $24m to facilitate public engagement and build community capacity for siting one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel.
[24][25] Later that year, Helsingin Sanomat published a front-page human interest story about his anthropological search for insights left behind by an enigmatic nuclear waste expert he called Seppo.
[34] The book examined Finnish nuclear waste company Posiva's efforts to make reductive, pragmatic models of far future societies, bodies, and ecosystems—and how their efforts were enabled by the Finnish populace's relatively high levels of trust in geotechnical engineers, regulators, and ministry experts.
[38][39] Later that year, Ialenti was featured alongside ambient musician Brian Eno in a Headspace meditation podcast about long-term thinking.