Revisiting the nuclear age. State of the art research in nuclear history

Kalmbach, Karena

doi:10.3726/4926npl-2017-1_49

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“…The genesis of industrial nuclear waste in the twentieth century has led to international research into the role of textual and historical archives as a way of ensuring certain legacies of nuclear waste materials are communicated into the future. From time capsules, to durable paper vaults, stone inscription, and digital archives, attention to textual and historical archives have often focused on the need to combine technical detail about the formation of nuclear waste with a wider focus on how archiving produces certain politics of knowledge and processes of categorisation (Kalmbach 2017;Lyons and Holtorf 2020;Penrose, Harrison and Breithoff 2020). Recognising this politics, research into nuclear archives and memory communication have also sought to apprehend something of the spatial and temporal scale of impact the nuclear has on the earth.…”

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Nuclear memory: Archival, aesthetic, speculative

Keating

Storm

2023

Progress in Environmental Geography

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This article assays geographical research into nuclear cultures, and cognate conversations in atomic heritage, toxic waste studies, and memory and landscape studies, as one way to develop the notion of nuclear memory. In doing so, we survey how geographers and social scientists have sought to think and communicate memory of nuclear things through three specific modes: the archival, the aesthetic, and the speculative. Our central argument is that nuclear memory provides a theoretical orientation for geographers to engage with alternative possibilities for thinking nuclear waste futures besides anthropocentric notions of common sense.

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Nuclear memory: Archival, aesthetic, speculative

Keating

Storm

2023

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…These include, among others, oil spills (Johnson, 2019), spills of toxic pesticides (Schiff, 2017) as well as industrial pollution in general, and radioactive contamination (Avenell, 2012). Even though radioactive pollution and radiation protection has received considerable attention in history (Kalmbach, 2017), the deeper entanglement between water and nuclear engineering has been mostly disregarded (Högselius, 2022).…”

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What is good drinking water? 41 Years of risk perception on water quality in the vicinity of the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, 1956–1997

Gutting

2023

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This article traces the historical evolution of risk perception around the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, Germany, from 1956 to 1997. It does so by targeting the evolution of water-related risks. Federal hopes in the postwar era that the Nuclear Research Centre would bring progress and prosperity clashed with local values and local perception of nuclear engineering as dangerous to health and the environment. Various conflicts arose and opponents made use of their past lived-knowledge to foster their arguments against future decision-making, mobilizing stories from the past to shape the future. The conflict culminated in the 1990s, when the municipality decided to lease the Centre's waterworks for future drinking water supply. The main argument of the article is that even though the public discourse shifted over the years from water pollution toward greater risks such as nuclear meltdowns, the local risk perception stayed with the water-related risks. The article shows how the locals perceived and narrated their risk perception against the decisionmaking of authorities as well as against the reasoning of scientists and experts.

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“…Union of Concerned Scientists (2019), 'Omfattade revisionsarbete på Forsmark 3', Vattenfall, accessed 28 September 2020, https ://group .vatte nfall .com/se/nyhet er-och-press /nyhet er-press medde lande n/ nyhet er/ringh als-och-forsm ark-arkiv -2013-2016/2014/omfat tade-revis ionsa rbete -pa-forsm ark-3. 2 For an overview on perspectives in nuclear history, see Kalmbach (2017). 3 A notable exception is the work of Sara Pritchard, who has written a history on the nuclearisation of the Rhône river in France.…”

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A complicated way of boiling water: nuclear safety in water history

Evens

2020

Water Hist

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Water and nuclear reactors are much closer intertwined than usually perceived. First, water is the source of the steam that drives the turbines of most nuclear power plants around the world. Next to generating electricity, water is the key to preventing accidents in nuclear plants. As uranium keeps on generating heat when the power plant is turned off, its core needs to be cooled continuously. This crucial connection between water and nuclear is focus of the paper. Nuclear safety will appear as relying heavily on earlier knowledge, institutions, and regulatory frameworks, which were related to water. The three parts of this article discuss technologies, actors and risks of nuclear power. Studying water as a resource in a much broader sense than being boiled for steam shows how determining water is to make nuclear power function. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.

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Revisiting the nuclear age. State of the art research in nuclear history

Cited by 8 publications

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Nuclear memory: Archival, aesthetic, speculative

Nuclear memory: Archival, aesthetic, speculative

What is good drinking water? 41 Years of risk perception on water quality in the vicinity of the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, 1956–1997

A complicated way of boiling water: nuclear safety in water history

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