Selected Essays.

- “U.S. Nuclear Campuses Could Power a Renaissance. Except for One Problem.” The Washington Post, 8/26/2026. (Link).

- “The Victory Lap on Trump’s Nuclear Campus Plan Is Premature.” The Hill, 8/25/2026. (Link).

- “Will the Trump Administration’s ‘Nuclear Campus’ Plan Break the U.S. Nuclear Waste Gridlock?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 5/6/2026. (Link).

- “What America Owes The Nuclear Future.” Noema, 4/30/2026. (Link).

- “The Mind-Bending Challenge of Warning Future Humans about Nuclear Waste.” Scientific American, 11/17/2025. (Link).

- “Do You Find the 21st Century Overstimulating? Try Longstorming.” Psyche, 6/13/2024. (Link).

- “Deep Time Underground.” Pace Layers 1 (Link).

- “Keeping Time Into the Great Beyond.” Noema, 4/5/2022. (Link).

- “The Art of Pondering Earth's Distant Future.” Scientific American, 8/13/2021. (Link).

- “What’s Behind the U.S. War on Science?” Sapiens & MIT Press Reader, 6/22/2021. (Link).

- “The Benefits of Embracing ‘Deep Time’ in a Year Like 2020.” BBC, 12/9/2020. (Link).

- “Can Nuclear Power Plants Generate Artistic Inspiration?” NPR, 2/27/2018. (Link).

- Ialenti, Vincent. “Why Nuclear Power Professionals Are Serious About Joking Around.” Nautilus, issue no. 23, 2017: 15–16. (Link).

- “Trump’s Slogan: More About the ‘Make’ Than the ‘Great’” (with Chloe Ahmann). Sapiens, 4/26/2017. (Link).

- “Books Trump Should Read Before Getting the Nuclear Codes” (with Annie Tomlinson). NPR, 12/27/2017. (Link).

- “Smaller Nuclear Weapons and Power Plants Under Development Hold Promise and Peril” (with Annie Tomlinson). Forbes, 10/25/2016. (Link).

- “Excited About the Pope's Visit? Read Laudato Si.” (with Annelise Riles). NPR, 9/26/2015. (Link).

- “Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely Into the Future?” Nautilus, 3/17/2015. (Link).

- “Looking Into the Far Future of Earth’s First Long-Term Nuclear-Waste Vault.” Nautilus, 3/16/2015. (Link).

- “Embracing Deep Time Thinking.” NPR, 9/28/2014. (Link).

- “Pondering ‘Deep Time’ Could Inspire New Ways to View Climate Change.” NPR, 9/21/2014. (Link).

- “Envisioning Landscapes of Our Very Distant Future.” NPR, 9/14/2014. (Link).