As the NUCLEARWATERS project, after six years, is approaching its official end, we are excited to be able to release a stream of research results in the form of scholarly publications. This week we are happy to announce the publication of a new special issue. It appears in the interdisciplinary journal Historical Social Research (HSR) and has as its overarching theme “Geographies of Nuclear Energy in Past and Present.”
This publication project has its origin in a double session organized by NUCLEARWATERS researcher Alicia Gutting and project leader Per Högselius back in September 2021 at the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). There were 12 paper presentations at the conference, 8 of which were eventually turned into journal articles for the special issue. One more intriguing paper, written by Christian Götter, was subsequently added, based on a presentation held at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) meeting in Bern last summer. In its final, published version, the special issue includes the following 10 contributions:
- Alicia Gutting, Per Högselius, Teva Meyer & Melanie Mbah: Geographies of Nuclear Energy. An Introduction.
- Christopher R. Hill & Saima Nakuti Ashipala: “Follow the Yellowcake Road”: Historical Geographies of Namibian Uranium from the Rössing Mine.
- Michiel Bron: The Uranium Club: Big Oil’s Involvement in Uranium Mining and the Formation of an Infamous Uranium Cartel.
- Matteo Gerlini: Nuclear Settlers in a European Land? The Making of Centre Commune de Recherche in Ispra.
- Alicia Gutting & Per Högselius: Nuclearized River Basins: Conflict and Cooperation along the Rhine, Danube, and Elbe.
- Christian Götter: Accepted to Cool: Conflicts about Cooling Technologies for Riverside Nuclear Power Plants.
- Louis Fagon: Who Is Affected? Defining Nuclear Territories and Their Borders: A Historical Perspective on the Nuclearization of the Rhône River from the 1970s to the 1990s.
- Jan-Henrik Meyer: Nuclear Power and Geography: How the European Communities Failed to Regulate the Siting of Nuclear Installations at Borders in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Melanie Mbah & Sophie Kuppler: Governing Nuclear Waste in the Long Term: On the Role of Place.
- Teva Meyer: Bordering Nuclearity: Very Low-level Radioactive Wastes’ Clearance and the Production of Spatial Nuclearities in Germany.
Not all articles are available open access at the moment, but you can access the two NUCLEARWATERS contributions using the links above and the rest by contacting the respective authors.
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