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

除了媒体对事故和灾难的报道外，核技术政治是晦涩、复杂和隐蔽的。他们要求考虑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毒性变得有形？如何证明经常被遗忘和熟悉的景观，放射性已经留下痕迹证据，健康威胁，破坏生态系统，因为它的隐蔽性，被我们大多数人忽视？如何将科学数据和美学融合在一起？科坦丁地区顶端的拉黑格诺曼半岛是研究50年来核生产、加油和废物管理遗产的独特领域。在方圆50公里的范围内有4个不同的核计划，核技术政治涵盖了民用和军用核工业的不同阶段：弗拉曼维尔(EPR仍在建设中)的电力生产，最近封存了300年的安德拉的核废料储存库，拉海牙核电站，以及最后的瑟堡军火库，那里建造了核动力潜艇。自50年代S以来，诺曼半岛嵌入了法国的核计划，奠定了民用和军用核领域之间深刻、有争议且经常受到审查的联系(G Hecht)。除了Zonabend的社会学研究(EHESS，巴黎，1993)，最近的学术项目没有调查该地区的环境、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.