Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in an African Suburb

原子结：非洲郊区的核电

• 批准号: 0958104
• 负责人: Abena Osseo-Asare
• 金额: $ 29.36万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2014-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958104&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Atomic; Junction; Nuclear; Power; African

Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in an African SuburbThis project investigates how Ghanaian scientists have sustained a movement to develop nuclear energy in a suburban landscape over the past forty years. The starting hypothesis is that scientists have nurtured a dream for nuclear energy while providing important services in radiation protection at medical facilities. Preliminary research suggests that the scientific and commercial sectors in Ghana have become increasingly embedded and co-dependent. Through an examination of scientists, community leaders and their relationship with commercial interests, the project will greatly expand our understanding of scientific practice in a post-colonial nation and provide new avenues for nuclear energy policy. Ghana has witnessed a variety of financial policies since independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, including socialist and neo-liberal regimes. This project will provide important documentation of how scientists have managed to weather economic downturns. Methods include collecting archival materials and conducting interviews with select leaders in business and science engaged in efforts to develop alternative energy sources and monitor radiation at hospitals and clinics. While energy production is a future goal, the study examines how scientists with access to a 30kW miniature neutron source reactor (the GHAAR-1) and Cobalt-60 gamma source currently provide assistance to entrepreneurs in the agricultural and medical sectors. Deliverables include a book and short film examine the historical relationship between scientific research on atomic energy and commerce in and around Kwabenya, Ghana (an area popularly called Atomic Junction).

原子连接：非洲子区的核能这个项目调查了加纳科学家如何在过去40年里在郊区地区持续开展发展核能的运动。最初的假设是，科学家在为医疗设施提供重要的辐射防护服务的同时，培育了一个核能梦想。初步研究表明，加纳的科学和商业部门已变得越来越根深蒂固和相互依存。通过对科学家、社区领袖及其与商业利益的关系的考察，该项目将极大地扩大我们对后殖民国家科学实践的理解，并为核能政策提供新的途径。加纳自1957年脱离联合王国独立以来，经历了各种财政政策，包括社会主义和新自由主义政权。这个项目将为科学家如何设法渡过经济低迷提供重要的文件。方法包括收集档案材料，并对致力于开发替代能源和在医院和诊所监测辐射的商界和科学界选定的领导人进行采访。虽然能源生产是未来的目标，但这项研究调查了拥有30kW微型中子源反应堆(GHAAR-1)和钴-60伽马源的科学家目前如何向农业和医疗部门的企业家提供援助。交付成果包括一本书和一部短片，探讨了加纳夸本亚(一个通常被称为原子交汇点的地区)及其周围地区对原子能的科学研究与商业之间的历史关系。