A Global Nuclear Environmental History

全球核环境史

• 批准号: 2020024
• 负责人: Paul Josephson
• 金额: $ 28.76万
• 依托单位: Colby College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020024&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Nuclear; Environmental; History

This research project is a study of global nuclear environmental history focused on North America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Far East. The PI will develop a cross national comparison of the environment in relation to military and civilian nuclear enterprises. In doing so, he will examine how understandings of the human-nature atom interface have changed since the dawn of the nuclear age. The project will produce a stand-alone global environmental history of the development of the nuclear enterprise in cross-national comparison that includes the conceptual, technological, socio-political and environmental impacts that have accompanied that development. The research takes place within the fields of history of science and technology, environmental history, and history of technology; results are to be disseminated as original research papers and a book manuscript pertinent to these areas. The PI also plans to disseminate results beyond scientific publications through editorials and through contact with various interested NGOs with interests in nuclear history, and through a dedicated webpage with links to extant and new research materials and teaching guides. This research project will bring STS and environmental history methods to bear on the study of the nuclear world to enable better understanding of the rise and functioning of state-sponsored big science and technology for military and peaceful purposes. The PI will use recently available primary sources in English, French, Russian, Swedish, Korean and other languages. He will also make extensive use of published and archival documents and studies on the nature of human-nuclear interactions in the domain of nuclear science and technology for different groups, languages and ethnicities, and across geographic and climatic areas; as a result, this research will produce societally relevant outcomes in its analyses of the role of women, children, underrepresented minorities including indigenes in postwar nuclear worlds. This history is valuable because of the vast expanse of the nuclear enterprise, its transborder and international ramifications, and the nature and kinds of landscapes and peoples whose lives have been affected by peaceful and military programs – and who have shaped its development. It will have the potential to contribute to policy debates about the costs, benefits and consequences of nuclear technologies over time, and to facilitate analysis of nuclear power as an effective way to address climate change in the twenty-first century.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该研究项目是对全球核环境历史的研究，集中在北美，欧洲，前苏联和远东地区。 PI将与军事和平民核企业有关环境的交叉比较。通过这样做，他将研究自核时代黎明以来对人类本质原子界面的理解发生了变化。该项目将在跨国比较中产生核企业发展的独立全球环境历史，其中包括实现了这一发展的概念，技术，社会政治和环境影响。该研究发生在科学和技术历史，环境历史和技术历史领域。结果将作为原始研究论文传播，并且是与这些领域有关的书籍手稿。 PI还计划通过社论以及与具有核历史兴趣的各种有趣的非政府组织的接触，并通过与专门的网页联系，并通过与广泛的研究材料和教学指南的链接来传播科学出版物的结果。该研究项目将带来STS和环境历史方法的研究，以对核世界的研究进行更好的了解，以更好地理解国家赞助的大型科学与技术的兴起和运作。 PI将使用最近可用的英语，法语，俄语，瑞典语，韩语和其他语言的主要来源。他还将广泛利用已发表和档案文件以及有关不同群体，语言和种族以及整个地理和气候区域的核科学和技术领域中人类核互动的性质的研究；结果，这项研究将在对妇女，儿童，代表性不足的少数民族的作用的分析中产生与社会相关的结果，包括战后核世界中的土著人。由于核企业的广阔，跨界和国际后果以及景观的性质和种类以及生活受到和平与军事计划影响的人们的性质和种类，这一历史之所以有价值，并塑造了其发展。它将有可能为有关核技术的成本，收益和后果的政策辩论做出贡献，并促进对核能的分析，作为解决二十一世纪气候变化的有效方法。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的知识功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。