This past summer I finished my masters programme in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning at Linköping university. For my masters thesis I interviewed people who live close to and spend time in the natural areas around the Forsmark nuclear industrial site where the final repository for Sweden’s spent nuclear fuel is under construction. My main Read more

‘Time as a safety factor in nuclear waste disposal’, this was the theme of the third interdisciplinary research symposium organized by the German radiation safety authority BASE. The symposium gathered around 350 international participants and took place in Berlin in September 2025. The Nuclear Natures team contributed with several interventions: in a plenary panel discussion, Read more

On a cold December day, the Nuclear Natures team, together with a few other researchers interested in ‘all things nuclear’, embarked on a short trip to what at one point in time should have been the Marviken nuclear power plant in Sweden. Read more

For three days, the Nuclear Natures Conference explored themes like radioactivity, speculative imaginations, science and laboratories, restoration and rewilding, and the designing and politicization of landscapes. Three distinguished keynote speakers, social anthropologist Petra Tjitske Kalshoven from Manchester University, historian of technology David E Nye from University of Southern Denmark and curator and UmArts director Ele Read more

For a full October week, 15 PhD students from 7 different countries and many different disciplines gathered in Norrköping, Sweden, for an intense PhD Autumn School on the theme of Nuclear Natures. Together with teachers from the Nuclear Natures project team and from the Nuclear Memory project team, the Autumn School participants enjoyed insightful and Read more

On 7–11 October 2024, the Nuclear Natures project organised a PhD autumn school and conference on the theme of Nuclear Natures in Norrköping, Sweden. While we are working on bringing you a full report of the events, we want to share some images and a news article about an artistic installation that was exhibited as… Read more