主题：核灾难的旱暵水溢 (Nuclear Disasters Wet and Dry)

主讲人：Per Högselius , 瑞典皇家理工学院环境科技史系教授

主持人：朱  浒

时间：2013年5月21日（周二）下午15:00——17:00

地点：中国人民大学人文楼四层大会议室

The 2011 Fukushimadisaster inJapanhas highlighted the centrality of water in nuclear energy operations. In this talk I will reinterpret the history of nuclear power as a history of water, and the history of nuclear accidents as a special case of droughts, floods, and other water-related disasters. The utmost importance of large-scale uninterrupted water flows for cooling nuclear facilities, and the need to simultaneously protect them from flooding and from contaminating their wet surroundings, have turned nuclear engineers into hydraulic engineers who interact with and transform nature in a variety of ways. The “nuclear age”, to the extent that it can be said to have materialized, is fundamentally a hydraulic age, and as such it draws heavily on experience gathered from hydraulic societies in the past. These historical affinities become particularly visible in times of crisis, and in the talk I will discuss several concrete examples of nuclear disasters, trying to discern what really make such disasters special in relation to other, “normal” droughts and floods.    

报告人：Per Högselius is Associate Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology,Stockholm,Sweden. Working in the intersection between environmental history and the history of science and technology, he has primarily focused on the history of energy supply in international perspective and the relations between environmental and other types of risk from an historical point of view. His latest book is the freshly published Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, 2013). Ongoing projects include “Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature,” “Swedenand the Origins of Global Resource Colonialism,” and “Fuelling the World: A Global Energy History.”

主办单位：《美国草地退化及其治理研究》课题组

                           中国人民大学生态史研究中心