nuclear power

Until the project was finally abandoned in 1989, the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant was the focus of Swiss disputes on nuclear energy for almost twenty years. In this case study, Patrick Kupper pursues the question of how an electro-technical infrastructure project could become the focal point of discourse about common basic values of Swiss society.

Warm Sands gives an institutional analysis of how the debates over legal and political authority, scientific expertise, and public health and safety both delayed and shaped the formation of mill tailings policy in the United States.

This film provides insight into the secretive way of life behind the walls of German nuclear plants.

An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.

This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.

Horace Herring explores the history of nuclear energy and its reception shortly after a Tsunami hit the North East coast of Japan in March 2011, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima One nuclear power plant.