Maja Fjaestad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Fjaestad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Fjaestad |
| SIGNATURE | FJAESTAD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chasing uranium
Fast Breeder Reactors in Sweden
The fast breeder is a type of nuclear reactor that aroused much attention in the 1950s and '60s. Its ability to produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes offered promises of cheap and reliable energy. Sweden had advanced plans for a nuclear breeder program, but canceled them in the middle of the 1970s with the rise of nuclear skepticism. The article investigates the nuclear breeder as a technological vision. The nuclear breeder reactor is an exa…
Nuclear Waste and Historical Time
The Danish documentary Into Eternity: A Film for the Future has received substantial attention in recent years. It portrays the efforts in Finland to construct a permanent repository where used nuclear fuel is supposed to slumber for 100,000 years, and explores questions connected to this. As an intervention in nuclear debates, Into Eternity is effective. With restraint and subtlety, the film allows the waste problem's inherent drama to take cent…
Environmental Histories of the Cold War (review)
Reviewed by: Environmental Histories of the Cold War Maja Fjaestad (bio) Environmental Histories of the Cold War. Edited by J. R. McNeill and Corinna Unger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+362. $90. Not only do the cold war and the development of the environmental movement coincide in time, their histories are also deeply intertwined. Technologies of mass destruction have left deep physical traces, and the postwar development …
Fast Breeder Reactors in Sweden
The fast breeder is a type of nuclear reactor that aroused much attention in the 1950s and '60s. Its ability to produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes offered promises of cheap and reliable energy. Sweden had advanced plans for a nuclear breeder program, but canceled them in the middle of the 1970s with the rise of nuclear skepticism. The article investigates the nuclear breeder as a technological vision. The nuclear breeder reactor is an exa…
Environmental Histories of the Cold War (review)
Reviewed by: Environmental Histories of the Cold War Maja Fjaestad (bio) Environmental Histories of the Cold War. Edited by J. R. McNeill and Corinna Unger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+362. $90. Not only do the cold war and the development of the environmental movement coincide in time, their histories are also deeply intertwined. Technologies of mass destruction have left deep physical traces, and the postwar development …
Nuclear Waste and Historical Time
The Danish documentary Into Eternity: A Film for the Future has received substantial attention in recent years. It portrays the efforts in Finland to construct a permanent repository where used nuclear fuel is supposed to slumber for 100,000 years, and explores questions connected to this. As an intervention in nuclear debates, Into Eternity is effective. With restraint and subtlety, the film allows the waste problem's inherent drama to take cent…
Fast Breeder Reactors in Sweden
The fast breeder is a type of nuclear reactor that aroused much attention in the 1950s and '60s. Its ability to produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes offered promises of cheap and reliable energy. Sweden had advanced plans for a nuclear breeder program, but canceled them in the middle of the 1970s with the rise of nuclear skepticism. The article investigates the nuclear breeder as a technological vision. The nuclear breeder reactor is an exa…
Chasing uranium
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Nuclear engineering (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Research, Science, and Academia (2 works)