We are pleased to announce a School Seminar by Dr Melina Antonia Buns on the topic of: Extractive Stories of Nuclear Waste.
Abstract:
The disposal of radioactive material not only presents technological but also environmental and societal challenges. As the removal of nuclear infrastructures in one place creates new nuclear installations and landscapes in another, nuclear waste disposal depends on spatial, mineral, and social resources. While it is first and foremost uranium mining that is associated with the extractive industry, the growing burden of nuclear disposal requires a critical turn towards the extractive histories and dependencies of the back-end of the nuclear fuel chain. This talk builds on the on-going research connected to the British Academy Visiting Fellowship ‘Nuclear Waste Disposal and the Hidden Stories of Extractivism’. It explores connections between disposal and extractive activities through reflections on field work conducted in the United Kingdom in the past months.
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