NuSPACES

December 12, 2022

NuSPACES project meeting & online catch-up with Associate Partners

The NuSPACES project team gathered at Linköping University (Sweden), 6-8 December 2022, to exchange updates, to discuss research papers and to plan future activities.

Project team met online with associate partners from Sweden, Lithuania and the UK, 7 December 2022. Each participant briefly shared updates on what has happened since the May meeting in West Cumbria and discussed themes and questions to be addressed in the planned Handbook of Nuclear Cultural Heritage.

The meeting included two presentations. Prof Thomas Kaiserfeld (Linköping University) presented the history of nuclear power in Sweden. Curators Magdalena Tafvelin Heldner and Peter Du Rietz (Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology) presented the handbook for documenting industry & reflections from their work on documenting Ågesta NPP.

Online catch-up was concluded by the Planning for the Second Participatory Workshop in Sweden, 8-12 May 2023.

Previous activities

September 11, 2024

NuSPACES final event at Science Museum London

The international research project "The Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations (NuSPACES)" invites to the final report launch and discussion which will gather scholars and practitioners to discuss the future of nuclear cultural heritage in the context of social change.

May 29, 2024

Egle Rindzeviciute participated in a fieldtrip to Onkalo

On 26-29 May 2024, Egle Rindzeviciute participated in a fieldtrip organised by Prof Ele Carpenter at Umeå University, as part of the Nuclear Culture Research Group. The trip was funded by a grant from the Swedish Research Council and gathered Prof Susan Schuppli (Goldsmiths), Alex Ressel (Griffith) and Erich Berger (Oulu).

May 22, 2024

Egle Rindzeviciute attended the conference “More than a Half-Life: Communities, Heritage and Decommissioning”

On 22 May 2024, Egle Rindzeviciute attended the conference “More than a Half-Life: Communities, Heritage and Decommissioning,” organised by the former NuSPACES post-doctoral researcher Dr Linda Ross and Dr Ben Anderson (Keele University).