Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES)

由于核退役及其对当地社区的影响，以及保障核废料和保护后代的挑战，核文化遗产在许多欧洲国家是一个快速增长的领域。然而，什么是核文化遗产，以及它如何能使不同的社会群体受益，这一点并不清楚，也存在争议。存在着一种危险，即宝贵的有形和无形形式的核文化遗产将丧失，社会不平等可能在这一过程中永久化。NuSPACES将与不同的利益攸关方合作，记录和审查英国、瑞典和立陶宛三国的核文化遗产的创建，并为该领域的研究和实践制定新的议程。首先，它将探讨当地社区、核工业和国家文化组织的不同社会团体在选择性地保护其核历史的过程中参与创建博物馆展览和遗产地的方式。第二，它将探讨核文化遗产在核物体退役过程中可发挥的作用，例如，提供新的材料类别和类型，以便保存在正在收集的档案中，为今后管理核废料存放处提供信息。第三，它将通过建立一个平台，使利益相关者能够分享他们的经验，并在与学术研究人员的对话中制定该领域研究和实践的未来议程，从而促进地方和国家核文化遗产创造活动的国际化。NuSPACES将产生新的经验数据、学术出版物、讲习班，并将编写一份载有核文化遗产政策准则的报告。

Nuclear cultural heritage is a fast-growing field in many European countries due to nuclear decommissioning and its impact on local communities, and the challenge of safeguarding nuclear waste and protecting future generations. However, it is unclear and contested what constitutes nuclear cultural heritage and how it can benefit different social groups. There is a risk that valuable tangible and intangible forms of nuclear cultural heritage will be lost and that social inequalities might be perpetuated in the process. NuSPACES will collaborate with different stakeholders to document and examine the creation of nuclear cultural heritage in three countries, the UK, Sweden and Lithuania and to shape a new agenda for research and practice in this field. It will explore, first, the ways in which different social groups at local communities, nuclear industries and national cultural organisations engage in creating museum expositions and heritage sites in the process of selective preservation of their nuclear past. Second, it will explore the role that nuclear cultural heritage can play in the process of decommissioning nuclear objects, for instance, providing new categories and types of materials to be preserved in the archives that are being assembled to inform future management of nuclear waste depositories. Third, it will contribute to the internationalisation of local and national nuclear cultural heritage-making activities by establishing a platform where stakeholders will be able to share their experience and shape future agenda for research and practice in the field in conversation with academic researchers. NuSPACES will result in new empirical data, academic publications, workshops and will produce a report containing policy guidelines on nuclear cultural heritage.