Radioactive ruins in La Hague: the Cold War legacy of civil and military nuclear techno-politics through the investigation of trace evidence within

远离媒体对事故和灾难的报道，核技术政治是阴暗、复杂和隐蔽的。他们要求具有挑战性的研究形式、创造性的主张和创新的方法。哪些美学策略可以使放射性毒性有形？如何为经常被遗忘和熟悉的景观作证，在那里放射性留下了痕迹证据，健康威胁，破坏的生态系统，由于它的不可见性，被我们大多数人忽视？如何将科学数据与美学融合？位于科坦坦地区顶端的诺曼半岛拉海牙是一个独特的地方，可以用来研究50年来核生产、换料和废物管理的遗产。在半径50公里的范围内，有4个不同的核电站，核技术政治涵盖了民用和军用核工业的各个阶段：弗拉芒维尔的电力生产（EPR仍在建设中），最近封闭了300年的安德拉核废料储藏库，拉海牙核燃料厂，最后是建造核动力潜艇的瑟堡兵工厂。自20世纪50年代以来，诺曼半岛就被嵌入法国的核计划之中，隐藏着民用和军用核领域之间深刻的、有争议的、经常受到审查的联系。除了Zonabend的社会学研究（EHESS，巴黎，1993年）外，最近没有任何学术项目调查该地区的环境、人类和有毒领土。

Away from the media coverage of accidents and catastrophes, nuclear techno-politics are murky, complex and hidden. They ask for challenging forms of research, creative propositions and innovative methodologies to be accounted for. Which aesthetic strategies can make radiotoxicity tangible? How to testify for often forgotten and familiar landscapes where radioactivity has left trace evidences, health threats, devastated eco systems, which due to its invisibility, are ignored bymost of us? How to merge scientific data and aesthetics?The Norman peninsula of La Hague at the tip of the Cotentin region is a unique territory to investigate the legacy of 50 years of nuclear production, refuelling and waste management. With 4 different nuclear plans located in a 50km radius, the nuclear techno-politics cover various stages of civil and military nuclear industries: electricity production at Flamanville (EPR still under construction), the recently 300 years sealed Andra's nuclear waste repository, La Hague refuellingnuclear plant, and finally the Cherbourg Arsenal where nuclear propelled submarined are built. Since the 50's, the Norman peninsula is embedded within the French nuclear program, underlying the deep, controversial and often censored connections between the civil and military nuclear realm, (G Hecht). Except for Zonabend's sociological research (EHESS, Paris, 1993), no recent academic project has investigated the environmental, human and toxic territories of the region.