We’re excited to announce that our edited volume The Nuclear-Water Nexus is finally out with MIT Press since a few days! This happens just as multiple nuclear power plants in continental Europe are once again forced to shut down partly or completely due to the current heatwave – a stark reminder of nuclear energy’s intricate envirotechnical entanglements and dependence on cooling water supplies.
It has been fantastic for us – Per Högselius and Siegfried Evens – as editors to work on this book during the past three years together with our 25 contributing authors: Diego Sesma-Martín, Mar Rubio-Varas, Elisabetta Bini, Achim Klüppelberg, Tom Turnbull, Max Lau, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Sonali Huria, Kumar Sundaram, Anaël Marrec, Carlos Gonzalvo, Heather Williams, Joanna Dyl, Roman Khandozhko, Elizabeth Hameeteman, Duygu Sever, Victor McFarland, Peter Burt, Sarah E. Robey, Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch, Agnès Villette, Jonathon Turnbull, and Kate Brown.
The book as a whole and its 21 chapters are available open access through the publisher’s website: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5996/The-Nuclear-Water-Nexus
If you are interested in the problem of riverine nuclear power plants during heatwaves, you may also want to read a recent article that NUCLEARWATERS researchers Alicia Gutting and Per Högselius just published together with Patricia Burkhardt-Holm in Energy Policy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421525001387
You can find these and other publications on the nuclear-water theme here on the NUCLEARWATERS project website: https://nuclearwaters.eu/publications/
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