{"product_id":"the-nuclearwater-nexus-isbn-9780262552288","title":"The Nuclear-Water Nexus","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSplitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of water \u003ci\u003eper second—\u003c\/i\u003eequivalent to the flow of a mid-sized river or large irrigation canal. In \u003ci\u003eThe Nuclear-Water Nexus,\u003c\/i\u003e Per Högselius and Siegfried Evens bring together 25 authors from 12 countries to explore the resulting entanglements between society, technology, and nature, to show how nuclear energy’s dependence on water has shaped the atomic age in decisive ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWater has been the key factor in forging a global nuclear geography, as the water needs of nuclear facilities require them to be located near the sea, major rivers, canals, or lakes. As an unintended consequence of such locations, nuclear facilities have become vulnerable to droughts, floods, erosion, and climate change—with much higher stakes than most other energy installations. Consequently, the “wet” geography of nuclear energy translates into threats to the wet environment, in the form of both radioactive contamination and thermal pollution. Water has, over the years, generated social conflicts—and cooperation—between nuclear energy and other water-intensive activities, such as agriculture, fisheries, navigation, military activities, hydropower production, drinking water supply, landscaping, leisure and tourism—and even fossil fuel extraction. This book examines these processes through a set of in-depth case studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors:\u003cbr\u003eElisabetta Bini, Kate Brown, Peter Burt, Joanna L. Dyl, Siegfried Evens, Carlos Gonzalvo, Elizabeth Hameeteman, Per Högselius, Sonali Huria, Roman Khandozhko, Achim Klüppelberg, Maximilian P. Lau, Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch, Anaël Marrec, Victor McFarland, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Sarah E. Robey, Diego Sesma-Martín, S. Duygu Sever, Kumar Sundaram, Jonathon Turnbull, Thomas Turnbull, Mar Rubio-Varas, Agnès Villette, Heather Williams\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroducing the Nuclear-Water Nexus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePer Högselius\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Envirotechnical Entanglements: Problems and Conflicts around Nuclear Cooling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 The Sisyphean Risk: Governing Corrosion in Nuclear Power Plants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSiegfried Evens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Water: The Limiting Factor for Nuclear Power Generation in Spain?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiego Sesma-Martín and Mar Rubio-Varas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 “Atomi in risaia”: Conflicts over Water Resources in the Italian Nuclear Program\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElisabetta Bini\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Water, Fish, and Contamination in Chernobyl’s Cooling Pond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAchim Klüppelberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Lake Stechlin: A Thermal Sink for East Germany’s First Atomic Power Plant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Turnbull and Maximilian P. Lau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 The Nuclear-Water Nexus and the Origins of European Environmental Policy: Thermal Pollution as a Transnational Problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJan-Henrik Meyer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 The Unsustainability of India’s Nuclear Energy Policy: Resisting the Gorakhpur Nuclear Project\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonali Huria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Exploring the Nuclear-Water Nexus in India’s Adivasi Heartland: Nuclear After-Lives of the Narmada River Protests\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKumar Sundaram\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Reactors on the Beach: Exploring the Atomic Coasts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 A Nuclear Power Plant in the Loire Estuary: Navigating the Politics of Siting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnaël Marrec\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 The Mark of Water on Spain’s Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarlos Gonzalvo Salas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 SONGS of the Southland: The Nuclear-Water Nexus in Southern California\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeather Williams and Joanna L. Dyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 Soviet Envirotechnical Landscapes and Crimea’s Contested Nuclearization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoman Khandozhko\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 Dreams of Abundance: America’s Cold War Vision of Nuclear Desalination\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElizabeth Hameeteman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 Reviving Nuclear Desalination? Challenges and Prospects in the Arab Gulf States\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eS. Duygu Sever\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: Water’s Malicious Agency: The Threat of Wet Radioactive Pollution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 The Waters of Project Plowshare: Hydraulic Engineering and Fracking with Nuclear Explosives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictor McFarland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16 Swamped: Flooding and Fibbing at the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Burt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 Below the Surface: Groundwater in Idaho’s Nuclear History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSarah E. Robey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18 The SDAG Wismut: The Nuclear-Water Nexus in Uranium Ore Mining and Milling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSabine Loewe-Hannatzsch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19 Archeologies of Toxicity: The St Hélène River Liquid Archive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgnès Villette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 Compounding Catastrophes in Polissya: Chornobyl’s Legacy Along the E40 Waterway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJonathon Turnbull and Kate Brown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003ePer Högselius is Professor of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His English-language publications include the award-winning \u003ci\u003eRed Gas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEurope’s Infrastructure Transition\u003c\/i\u003e (coauthored with Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten), and \u003ci\u003eEnergy and Geopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e. He led the ERC-funded project NUCLEARWATERS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried Evens is a historian specialized in the history of technology, risk, and disaster. He obtained his PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 2024. His thesis was part of the ERC-funded NUCLEARWATERS project and studied the regulation of water and steam technologies in nuclear power plants. He is currently a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302609244389,"sku":"NP9780262552288","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552288.jpg?v=1767740754","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-nuclearwater-nexus-isbn-9780262552288","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}