Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice

这一研究联网项目侧重于新兴的核文化遗产领域。其目的是在国家和国际核文化遗产研究人员和遗产部门与核部门之间建立前所未有的联系。它将创建一个跨学科网络，作为一个平台，描述选定的欧洲和非欧洲国家的核文化遗产，并制定新的研究、展览和公众参与战略。核文化遗产的概念在遗产研究和实践中是新的：它指的是与民用和军用核工业有关的各种有形和无形物品，如退役的发电厂、博物馆展品、景观和社区。该项目将发展的核文化遗产概念将提供应对核国家面临的紧迫挑战的方法，如核废料和军火库的管理、核能工业的未来以及重新评估核历史更广泛的社会和文化遗产的必要性。在不同国家出现了建设核文化遗产档案馆、博物馆、遗址和展览的创新举措：例如，英国的敦雷和俄罗斯的奥布宁斯克核电站一直在改造为文化遗产地。然而，这一领域的国际合作非常少。这一研究网络项目将通过为领先的社会科学和人文科学学者和遗产从业人员提供一个国际论坛，审查该领域的最新状况，并确定与收集、解释和管理核文化遗产有关的共同问题，从而弥合这一差距。通过这样做，该项目响应了AHRC遗产研究战略，将艺术和人文与科学技术和实践联系起来。该项目的成果将是：a)为参与的学者和核遗产机构之间持续的国家和国际合作建立一个新的网络；b)通过将学术研究人员、博物馆从业人员和核工业专业人员等不同的利益攸关方聚集在一起，对该项目所称的核文化遗产的关键国家和国际问题有新的认识；c)制定一套针对未来核遗产从业人员的指导方针。

This research networking project focuses on the emerging field of nuclear cultural heritage. It aims to establish unprecedented links between national and international nuclear cultural heritage researchers and the heritage sector on the one hand, and the nuclear sector on the other. It will create an interdisciplinary network which will serve as a platform to describe nuclear cultural heritage in select European and non-European countries as well as to develop new research, exhibition and public engagement strategies. The notion of nuclear cultural heritage is new to heritage studies and practice: it refers to a wide range of tangible and intangible objects, such as decommissioned power plants, museum exhibits, landscapes and communities that are associated with the civil and military nuclear industry. The concept of nuclear cultural heritage that this project will develop will provide ways of responding to pressing challenges experienced by nuclear nations, such as the management of nuclear waste and military arsenals, the future of the nuclear energy industry, and the need to reassess the wider social and cultural legacy of the nuclear past. Innovative initiatives to construct archives, museums, sites and exhibitions of nuclear cultural heritage have been emerging in different countries: for instance, the UK's Dounreay and Russia's Obninsk nuclear power plants have been undergoing transformation into cultural heritage sites. However, there is very little international cooperation in this field. This research networking project will bridge this gap by providing an international forum for leading social science and humanities scholars and heritage practitioners to examine the state of the art in this field and identify common issues in relation to collecting, interpreting and governing nuclear cultural heritage. In doing this, the project responds to the AHRC Heritage Research Strategy connecting arts and humanities with science and technology as well as practice. The project outcomes will be a) the establishment of a new network for sustained national and international cooperation among participating scholars and nuclear heritage institutions, b) development of a new understanding of key national and international issues in the making of what this project describes as nuclear cultural heritage by bringing together different stakeholders such as academic researchers, museum practitioners and nuclear industry professionals; and c) the development of a set of guidelines aimed at future nuclear heritage practitioners.