"Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rocks and Reactors: The Origins of Radiation Exposure Disparity, 1941 to 1979"
"Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rocks and Reactors: The Origins of Radiation Exposure Disparity, 1941 to 1979"
批准号:
1151670
负责人:
Jacob Hamblin
金额:
$1.5万
依托单位:
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
Standard Grant
财政年份:
2012
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2012-04-01 至 2013-03-31
中文摘要
博士论文研究:岩石和反应堆:辐射暴露差异的起源,1941-1979本研究探讨了在核燃料链的不同组织设置和阶段,不同的污染标准如何成为可接受的规范。它比较了原子能和平组织研究反应堆实验室和美国西南部铀矿的辐射安全。档案和二手文献用于调查国际上如何在学术研究反应堆中建立辐射安全,但没有扩展到最直接受辐射污染影响的反应堆。世界范围内大部分核燃料链活动(核材料的开采、碾磨、生产、使用和储存)发生的地方的土著生存社区。它促进了研究反应堆和矿区不同文化之间科学知识和实践的包容、排斥和交流的学术研究。它展示了对同一技术产品的不同监管是如何发生的,最后,它填补了核技术历史上的一个重要空白,将核反应堆的监管置于分析的中心。这项研究解释了辐射标准制定的复杂历史,以便更广泛的公众可以参与环境正义和核历史的讨论和决定。此外,它还开发新的教学工具,并通过土著群体、研究科学家和历史学家积极参加的辐射照射讲习班传播和积累知识。
英文摘要
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rocks and Reactors: The Origins of Radiation Exposure Disparity, 1941-1979This research investigates how different standards for contamination became acceptable norms at different organizational settings and stages in the nuclear fuel chain. It compares radiation safety as practiced at Atoms for Peace research reactor laboratories and at southwestern United States uranium mines. Archival and secondary literature is used to investigate how radiation safety was instituted internationally at academic research reactors, but not extended to those most directly affected by radiation pollution?indigenous subsistence communities located where a high proportion of the nuclear fuel chain activities (mining, milling, production, use, and storage of nuclear materials) occur worldwide. It advances scholarship on the inclusion, exclusion, and exchange of scientific knowledge and practice between diverse cultures at research reactors and mining sites. It demonstrates how the differential regulation of the same technological product can occur, and finally, it fills an important gap in the history of nuclear technologies, by placing the regulation of nuclear reactors at the center of analysis. This research explains the complex history of radiation standard setting so that a broader public can participate and contribute to discussions and decisions on environmental justice and nuclear history. In addition, it develops new teaching tools, and disseminates and builds knowledge through workshops on radiation exposure in which indigenous groups, research scientists and historians are active participants.
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批准号:1734618
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项目类别:Continuing Grant
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资助金额:$29.73万
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财政年份:2017
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负责人:Jacob Hamblin
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依托单位:
Arming Mother Nature: Science, Technology, and Environmental Security after World War II
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批准号:0738377
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项目类别:Continuing Grant
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资助金额:$13.64万
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财政年份:2008
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负责人:Jacob Hamblin
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依托单位:
海外基金