Inventing traditions: interests, parables and nostalgia in the history of nuclear energy
Inventing traditions: interests, parables and nostalgia in the history of nuclear energy
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DOI：
10.1080/07341512.2015.1101837
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发表时间：
2015-04
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Tilmann Hanel;M. Hård
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作者：
Tilmann Hanel;M. Hård
从20世纪60年代末开始，轻水设计主导了大多数西方国家的核反应堆市场。在此之前，许多国家的政府、科学家和实业家都支持重水和石墨慢化电厂这两个对立的概念。这篇文章的重点是瑞典和西德，这两个国家的核心角色只是不情愿地放弃了对国内开发的重水解决方案的支持。作者研究了新的档案材料，并采用了霍布斯鲍姆和兰杰的“传统的发明”概念，分析了当代行动者在为使用天然铀和重水的工厂辩护时是如何动员国家和过去的。这篇论文记录了自给自足的论点是如何被怀旧情绪所取代的，以及后来历史学家是如何分别将“瑞典路线”和“传统”这样的道歉寓言永久化的。
Abstract From the late 1960s on, light-water designs dominated the market for nuclear reactors in most Western countries. Up to that point in time, many national governments, scientists and industrialists had favoured the rival concepts of heavy-water and graphite-moderated plants. The article focuses on Sweden and West Germany, where central actors only reluctantly gave up their support for domestically developed heavy-water solutions. Studying new archival material and adopting Hobsbawm and Ranger’s concept of the ‘invention of tradition’, the authors analyze how contemporary actors mobilized both the nation and the past when arguing for plants using natural uranium and heavy water. The paper documents how autarkic arguments were superseded by nostalgic sentiments, and how-subsequently-historians have come to perpetuate apologetic parables like ‘Swedish line’ and ‘tradition’, respectively.