Dissertation Research: No Immediate Risk: Environmental Safety and Nuclear Weapons Production, 1942-1996

这项研究的重点是如何产生有关环境安全的知识，以及如何将其转化为不同的学科和工作环境。更具体地说，它审查了核武器生产中使用的废物管理，工人安全和公共卫生做法。 这项分析将这一系列行为、风险评估做法和决策程序确定为“环境安全”，旨在了解核武器科学家、工程师、管理人员和工人如何着手控制和限制他们所使用的危险材料造成的损害。该研究认为，核武器生产发生在一个动态的社会技术系统中，使用环境安全的变化来说明冷战机构的知识流动和组织结构。 总的办法是通过对参与这项工作的实验室、机构和部门进行档案研究，跟踪核武器生产过程中生态、健康和安全知识的产生和流动。 还将进行档案工作，以确定各生产地点的官方政策和业务做法。

This study focuses on how knowledge about environmental safety is generated and how this is translated into different disciplinary and work contexts. More specifically, it examines waste management, worker safety, and public health practices utilized in nuclear weapons production. Identifying this package of behaviors, risk assessment practices, and decision-making procedures as `environmental safety`, this analysis seeks to understand how nuclear weapons scientists, engineers, managers, and workers undertook to contain and limit damage from the hazardous materials with which they worked. Arguing that nuclear weapons production occurs in a dynamic sociotechnical system, the study uses changes in environmental safety to illustrate the knowledge flows and organizational structures in the Cold War Institution. The general approach will be to track the generation and flow of ecological, health, and safety knowledge within the nuclear weapons production process through archival research of the laboratories, agencies, and divisions involved in such work. Archival work will also be conducted to determine official policy and operational practices at various production sites.