Nuclear revival and legacies: insights from humanities and social science

8:30 - 9:15 (45min)

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9:15 - 9:45 (30min)

Welcome Coffee

La Ruche

9:45 - 10:00 (15min)

Opening

Cauchy lecture hall - Amphi Cauchy

Marc Barbier ; and project team

10:00 - 11:00 (1h)

Keynote : Evidence, Implications and Opportunities around Concealed Civil and Military Nuclear Obsolescence

Cauchy lecture hall - Amphi Cauchy

Andrew Stirling and Philip Johnstone (University of Sussex)

11:05 - 12:45 (1h40)

Nuclear Promises

Cauchy lecture hall - Amphi Cauchy

Chair: Maël GOUMRI (LAMSADE/CERMES3, Université Paris Dauphine)

› From “Atoms to for Peace” to “Atoms for the Earth”: The Idaho National Laboratory and the Birth of the Green Atom - Lucie Genay, Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles, Fédération pour l'Etude des Civilisations Contemporaines 11:08-11:26 (18min)

› A never-ending narrative. The grammar of technologists crafting the credibility of 'fast-breeder' nuclear technology - Claire LE RENARD, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés 11:34-11:52 (18min)

› Framing Nuclear Innovation: SMRs in Belgian Media - Willem Brabants, Université de Liège, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre [Mol, Belgique] 11:53-12:11 (18min)

› Constructing the SMR promise: promissory narratives and their counter-narratives in Canada, Finland, France, and the UK - Markku Lehtonen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona], University of Jyväskylä 12:12-12:30 (18min)

12:45 - 12:55 (10min)

Conclusion & Welcome at the école nationale des ponts et chaussées

Cauchy lecture hall - Amphi Cauchy

Jérome Lesueur

13:00 - 14:15 (1h15)

Lunch

La Ruche

14:15 - 15:30 (1h15)

Decaying infrastructures and decommissioning

Cauchy lecture hall - Amphi Cauchy

Chair: Pierre DELVENNE (Spiral, Liège University)

› Grasping infrastructure through microcracks. The stress corrosion case in French nuclear reactors as a nuclear material politics. - Martin Denoun, Spiral, University of Liege 14:17-14:35 (18min)

› Unfolding the Ignalina NPP Archives: Decommission and Transitions - Andrei Stsiapanau, Vytautas Magnus Univeristy 14:35-14:52 (17min)

› Transforming Nuclear Reactors into Waste: Decommissioning as a Practice of Residual Care in France - Ange Pottin, Univeristy of Vienna 14:52-15:10 (18min)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Coffee break

La Ruche

16:00 - 17:15 (1h15)

Nuclear fuels and residues

Cauchy lecture hall - Amphi Cauchy

Chair: Harry BERNAS (CNRS, University of Paris Saclay)

› Sustainable waste and the depoliticization of the future. - Alexis Geisler-Roblin, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris 16:03-16:20 (17min)

› Informing and complying. Information infrastructures and the management of low and very low level radioactive waste - Romain GARCIER, École normale supérieure de Lyon 16:20-16:38 (18min)

› Securitizing for nothing? Discussing the weaponability of nuclear fuel supplies in the European Union - Teva MEYER, Centre de recherches sur les économies, les sociétés, les arts et les techniques - CRESAT - UR3436 16:38-16:56 (18min)

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