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International Symposium
9 \u2013 10 September 2025, University of Exeter
<\/strong>Funded by the Nuclear Waste Services and the Societies and Cultures Institute<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised by Sebastian Koa and Caitlin Mullin, this two-day Nuclear Societies international symposium explored the changing relations between energy infrastructures and the communities that depend on, form around, and evolve with them. It brought together a diverse group of academics and professionals from nine universities across the UK, France, Germany, USA, and Canada.
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  • Esther Egele-Godswill<\/strong>, University of Edinburgh
    Infrastructures of (Dis)connections: The Social Life of Oil Pipelines in Nigeria\u2019s Niger Delta<\/em>

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  • Prerna Gupta<\/strong>, University of British Columbia
    From Promise to Peril: Experiencing Nuclear Energy in Tarapur<\/em>

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  • Paula Duffy<\/strong>, University of Aberdeen
    Temporal Rhythms of Solar Infrastructure: An analysis of Ground-mounted Solar PV Development in England, UK<\/em>

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  • Sebastian Koa,<\/strong> University of Exeter
    The Project and its Outsides: Timescapes of Nuclear Power Plants in Construction<\/em>

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  • Helena Hastie<\/strong> and Damien Mansell<\/strong>, University of Exeter
    Plot, power, promises: Policy-making at the land-energy nexus in South Africa<\/em>

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  • Frederik Gremler<\/strong>, BASE Germany
    Who rejects compensation offers for energy infrastructures and why? The case of a repository for nuclear waste in Germany<\/em>

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  • Tara Panesar<\/strong> and Oliver Carpenter<\/strong>, Science Museum London
    Representing energy infrastructures and their communities in Science Museum displays<\/em>

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  • Yoi Kawakubo<\/strong>, Southampton Solent University
    The New Clear Age: Nuclear Infrastructures, Generational Memory and the Temporalities of Energy Communities<\/em>

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  • Lucas Lopez<\/strong>, Bordeaux Montaigne University
    The structuring of a European community through the crossed construction trajectories of the nuclear power plant fleet, the interconnected electricity transmission network and the political unification of Europe, from the 1950s to the 2010s<\/em>

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  • Riley J Fisher<\/strong>, University of Michigan
    The People of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Demographic Analysis of Nuclear Sites in the United States<\/em>

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