A Global Nuclear Environmental History

该研究项目是一项以北美、欧洲、前苏联和远东为重点的全球核环境历史研究。PI将对军用和民用核企业的环境进行跨国比较。在此过程中，他将研究自核时代开始以来，对人类与自然原子界面的理解是如何变化的。该项目将编制一份独立的全球环境史，对核企业的发展进行跨国比较，其中包括伴随这一发展而来的概念、技术、社会政治和环境影响。研究在科学和技术史、环境史和技术史领域内进行;研究结果将作为与这些领域有关的原始研究论文和书籍手稿传播。公众研究所还计划在科学出版物之外，通过社论和与对核历史感兴趣的各种感兴趣的非政府组织的联系，以及通过一个专门的网页与现有和新的研究材料和教学指南的链接，传播成果。该研究项目将把STS和环境史方法用于核世界的研究，以更好地了解国家资助的用于军事与和平目的的大科学技术的兴起和运作。PI将使用最近可用的英文、法文、俄文、瑞典文、韩文和其他语文的主要来源。他还将广泛利用出版和档案文件，以及关于不同群体，语言和种族以及地理和气候区域的核科学和技术领域中人与核相互作用性质的研究;因此，这项研究将在分析妇女，儿童，代表性不足的少数民族，包括战后核世界中的土著人的作用方面产生社会相关的成果。这段历史是有价值的，因为核事业的广阔，其跨境和国际影响，以及自然和各种景观和人民的生活受到和平和军事计划的影响-以及谁塑造了它的发展。该奖项将有可能促进关于核技术长期成本、效益和后果的政策辩论，并促进分析核能作为应对21世纪气候变化的有效途径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project is a study of global nuclear environmental history focused on North America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Far East. The PI will develop a cross national comparison of the environment in relation to military and civilian nuclear enterprises. In doing so, he will examine how understandings of the human-nature atom interface have changed since the dawn of the nuclear age. The project will produce a stand-alone global environmental history of the development of the nuclear enterprise in cross-national comparison that includes the conceptual, technological, socio-political and environmental impacts that have accompanied that development. The research takes place within the fields of history of science and technology, environmental history, and history of technology; results are to be disseminated as original research papers and a book manuscript pertinent to these areas. The PI also plans to disseminate results beyond scientific publications through editorials and through contact with various interested NGOs with interests in nuclear history, and through a dedicated webpage with links to extant and new research materials and teaching guides. This research project will bring STS and environmental history methods to bear on the study of the nuclear world to enable better understanding of the rise and functioning of state-sponsored big science and technology for military and peaceful purposes. The PI will use recently available primary sources in English, French, Russian, Swedish, Korean and other languages. He will also make extensive use of published and archival documents and studies on the nature of human-nuclear interactions in the domain of nuclear science and technology for different groups, languages and ethnicities, and across geographic and climatic areas; as a result, this research will produce societally relevant outcomes in its analyses of the role of women, children, underrepresented minorities including indigenes in postwar nuclear worlds. This history is valuable because of the vast expanse of the nuclear enterprise, its transborder and international ramifications, and the nature and kinds of landscapes and peoples whose lives have been affected by peaceful and military programs – and who have shaped its development. It will have the potential to contribute to policy debates about the costs, benefits and consequences of nuclear technologies over time, and to facilitate analysis of nuclear power as an effective way to address climate change in the twenty-first century.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.