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Publications
See publications from The Beam team
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The Power of the Special
Special Nuclear Materials – those fissile isotopes from which spring all the promise and the peril in the ‘nuclear’
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Trusting your robot colleagues part two: Building trust
Efficiency and reliability are factors…but building trust requires more than that…
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Trusting your robot colleagues part one: What is a robot?
The question may seem obvious, but how do you actually define a robot?
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Repetition and Sustainability
Exploring entanglements and tensions that arise between ‘the repetitive’ and ‘the sustainable’ in nuclear discourse
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A new research project in the making: ‘Mimesis in Action’
‘Mimesis in Action: Nuclear decommissioning as conceptual playground for societal and ecological future making’ is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
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Policy environment for small modular reactors
Visiting expert Professor Jeremy Rayner will include the UK in an international comparison study
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Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice
The Beam launches interdisciplinary postgraduate module
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Funding call for Applied Social Science
RWM to fund post-doctoral research on citizen participation in major infrastructure projects
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Seminar series: Making the unknown knowable
Online seminar series exploring the ways in which the unknown is rendered knowable