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Petra Tjitske Kalshoven has just begun fieldwork for an ethnographic project on nuclear decommissioning at Sellafield in West Cumbria.
Meet Damian O’Doherty, Professor of Management and Organisation and co-founder of The Beam.
Meet Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester and co-founder of The Beam.
Our Nuclear Industry has defined my working life. For over thirty years it has been my constant companion.
Adrian Bull, Director of External Relations for the UK National Nuclear Laboratory, visits Okuma – inside the exclusion zone of the March 2011 Fukushima accident.
We need to consider the social dimensions of energy; energy in terms of the difference it makes to people’s lives.