The Technical, Political and Socio-Economic Challenges of Governing Nuclear Waste

Nucci, Maria Rosaria Di; Losada, Ana María Isidoro; Schreurs, Miranda A.; Brunnengräber, Achim; Mez, Lutz

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-21441-8_1

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“…Since the start of its civilian nuclear power program, the PRC has pursued an R&D program for a final high-level nuclear waste (HLW) repository (Brunnengräber et al 2018). Large civilian nuclear energy programs generate nuclear waste, and the Northwest Institute for Nuclear Technology (NINT) in Xinjiang has undertaken research into a potential HLW repository and underground research laboratory facility (URL) in the region since 2012 (Di Nucci et al 2018). The final site selection is still pending but has been narrowed down to the Aquisha area, nearby to Lop Nor, which has no permanent residents.…”

Section: Contemporary Cultural Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is currently no literature that explores or describes nomadic residents or the cultural significance of this site. Executive nuclear waste management legislation is currently uneven, as China has no overarching legislation that requires nuclear power plant operators to manage nuclear waste liabilities (Di Nucci et al 2018). Although nuclear safety issues have received attention in PRC since Fukushima, there has been less attention to nuclear waste management.…”

Section: Contemporary Cultural Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The nuclear imperialism-necropolitics nexus: contextualizing Chinese-Uyghur oppression in our nuclear age

Alexis‐Martin

2019

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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This paper provides a review of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) nuclear warfare development and uranium mining programs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Its scope spans from PRC's first nuclear weapon test in Lop Nur during the early Cold War, to the contemporary issues surrounding in-situ leach uranium mining in the Yili basin which now provides a third of PRC's uranium. By exploring these scenarios, it is possible to place a lens on the parameters and limitations to indigenous Uyghur life within a nuclear state. This paper draws on the work of Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, whereby power is persistently exercised as violence, to consider the entangled aftermath of nuclear imperialism and its harmful consequences to Uyghur bodies, environment and culture. While racialized nuclear imperialism presented Uyghur lives as inconsequential to industrial and military progress in Xinjiang, post-Cold War necropolitics presents Uyghur culture as a direct threat to the progress and values of the PRC sovereign state. This paper proposes that the ongoing exploitation of nuclear Xinjiang provides an additional motivation for state-imposed necropolitical sanctions upon Uyghur people. This paper also presents a new theoretical contribution, the "nuclear imperialismnecropolitics nexus", which offers a way to consider the legacy of injustice of spaces of nuclear activity, from nuclear imperialism to the post-Cold War world.

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Section: Contemporary Cultural Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contemporary Cultural Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%