TRANSENS - Transdisciplinary Research on High-Level Radioactive Waste Management in Germany - Research to Improve the Quality and Robustness of the Sociotechnical Design of the Disposal Pathway

Geographies of Nuclear Energy. An Introduction.

Published in: Historical Social Research 49 (2024) 1 Nuclear energy has long attracted the attention of scholars in the humanities and social sciences. With this HSR Special Issue, we would like to push the scholarly frontier by highlighting the geographies of nuclear energy in the past and present

Governing Nuclear Waste in the Long Term: On the Role of Place.

Published in: Historical Social Research 49 (2024)1 A major challenge in building and securing a repository for high-level waste is the long-time spans needed for site selection, construction, storage, and closure. Depending on the type of site selection procedure and the chosen repository concept,

Perceptions of surface facilities of a potential disposal site and the role of place attachment

Presentation by Dr Melanie Mbah, safeND-Conference, Berlin 14.09.2023

Presentation at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

Governing Nuclear Waste in the Long-Term: On the Role of Place

echnical installations of infrastructure projects have spatial effects – physically and psychologically/emotionally – which need to be considered and integrated in a place-sensitive long-term governance concept.