Nuclear-to-Nature Land Conversion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daisaku Yamamoto (0000-0002-8449-724X, Twitter (United States)), Julia Feikens, Melissa Haller (0000-0001-9965-073X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 415-436 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00167428.2020.1799212 |
| OpenAlex | W3042931481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
Postnuclear land conversion has gained attention as more civilian nuclear power reactors reach their design life. To date, most former nuclear power plant sites have been converted into another power plant or are sitting idle, often with spent nuclear fuel on site. However, a former nuclear power plant site in the town of Haddam, Connecticut, presents an alternative possibility: land conversion into a nature conservation area. We adopt theoretical vantage points of the geographical political economy literature to analyze the evolution of different discourses and actions relating to the former nuclear site, and examine why and how nuclear-to-nature conversion has gained momentum. The study reveals that the nuclear-to-nature proposition emerged as a political leverage to resolve conflicting interests over land reuse and spent nuclear fuel problems, which eventually engendered active local agency for land conservation. We argue that recognizing multiple articulations of space and associated agency is essential to understand the seemingly contradictory juxtaposition of nature and nuclear
Agency (philosophy · Environmental planning · Geography · Leverage (statistics · Nuclear physics · Nuclear power · Nuclear power plant · Political science · Politics · Site selection · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Ecology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Risk Perception and Management
If it’s in our backyard
Annual Review Economic Geography
Navigating French post-nuclear trajectories
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States
Placing the intangible
Making sense of nuclear natures
The epistemic tensions of nuclear waste siting in a nuclear landscape
Spatial Divisions of Labour
The Comparative Method
Welcome to the Atomic Park
Nuclear landscapes
Building a Geographical Political Economy of Closure
Geographical political economy of nuclear power plant closures
Introducing the geosocial context of nuclear decommissioning
Representing Place
Towards nuclear geography
Wild and Scenic Wasteland
Becoming Jane
Doom Towns
Alien Still Life
| Citations per year | 1.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |