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| New Mexico's nuclear enchantment: Local politics, national imperatives, and radioactive waste disposal | |
| Richter, Jennifer | |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 学位类型 | 博士 |
| 导师 | Goldstein, Alyosha |
| 学位授予单位 | The University of New Mexico |
| 英文摘要 | The use of nuclear technologies has left an indelible mark on American society. The environmental, political, economic, and social costs of creating, producing, and utilizing technologies such as nuclear weapons and nuclear energy have left a legacy of radioactive waste. To date, there is no comprehensive path for disposing of the different kinds of waste produced by the nuclear industry, including spent nuclear fuel that is now held on site at nuclear power plants. The question of how to deal with nuclear waste has plagued the nuclear industry, governmental agencies, and the concerned public for most of the nuclear era. There is one permanent geologic repository in the U.S., called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located in the salt beds outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Presently, WIPP is only allowed to hold low-level transuranic waste produced by military installations during the Cold War. This project looks at the ways that federal attention has turned to this remote site in the Chihuahuan Desert as a potential solution for storing high-level nuclear waste as well. Using ethnographies, archival research, and the ideas expressed at numerous public meeting held in the region, this project shows how nuclear communities are framed in discourses surrounding nuclear waste through the concept of nuclearism, which posits that nuclear technologies are wholly beneficial to society. Specifically, this project examines how concepts involving the immutability of nature and science interact to form problematic assumptions regarding the behavior of the environment in relation to nuclear waste. Furthermore, conversations that focus solely on the production of "sound science" ignore the political and social consequences of creating and moving nuclear waste across the country, ensnaring more communities into the web of potential nuclear consequences. Nuclear issues also intersect different scales, troubling the idea of local consent, the idea of a homogenous public, and whether nuclear technologies can be tools of democracy. The events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011 underscored the delicate balance of technology and nature, and showed the inherent vulnerabilities of complex technological systems. By connecting the complex natures of the desert, salt, radiation, and time together with questions of political representation, this project looks at how the nuclear future is being shaped in the desert of New Mexico. |
| 英文关键词 | New Mexico Nuclear politics Waste Isolation Pilot Plant |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | United States |
| 来源学科分类 | American studies; Environmental Studies; Science history |
| URL | https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1467524100.html?FMT=AI |
| 来源机构 | University of New Mexico |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/247212 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Richter, Jennifer. New Mexico's nuclear enchantment: Local politics, national imperatives, and radioactive waste disposal[D]. The University of New Mexico,2013. |
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