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We will address nuclear legacies along three axes: a material–immaterial axis, a heritage–future axis, and a power axis, and by empirical studies in France, Russia and Sweden. The following questions will guide the project: 1) How is the “nuclear way of living” re-negotiated when the plant that formed its basis is closing down? 2) How have the official stories of nuclear power changed in relation to alterations in political systems? 3) How is the issue of radioactive waste played out between scientific experts, state actors and anti-nuclear activists when previously hidden information becomes public? 4) What are the future visions for post-nuclear sites, in terms of ecology and social life, when the decommissioning process is finalized?  The material–immaterial axis explores, e.g., public displays and exhibited objects, urban organization and experiences of being chosen or betrayed. The heritage–future axis deploys shared memories, official storytelling and articulation of future prospects. The power axis, finally, highlights actors’ ability to influence or steer decisions and developments, e.g., in managing hazardous spent nuclear fuel or shaping stories of past abuses.  The aim of the project is, first, to generate new knowledge about the impact of nuclear legacies in the current situation of an expanding post-nuclear landscape, and second, to develop a cohesive research terminology for comprehending and analyzing nuclear legacies. Through a deepened understanding of what nuclear power production signifies in different societal contexts and temporalities, the ambition is to contribute to a better designed management of the nuclear legacies that we all – by necessity – share."},"keywords":{"sv":"Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning","en":"Baltic and East European studies"},"project_id":"34/2014_OSS","identifier_short":"34/2014","dates":{"start_date":"2015-01-01","end_date":"2016-12-31"},"organizations":[{"funding":[{"_id":7,"id":"802400-4155","sv":"Östersjöstiftelsen","en":"The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies"}]},{"coordinating":[{"_id":481,"id":"202100-4896","sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}],"people":[{"project_leaders":[{"_id":"authority-person:651","orcid":"0000-0002-0553-1295","name":"Storm, Anna","role":"principal_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":504,"id":"202100-3062","sv":"Stockholms universitet","en":"Stockholm University"},{"_id":11846,"sv":"Samtidshistoriska institutet","en":"Institute of Contemporary History","parent":[{"_id":11802,"sv":"Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier","en":"School of Historical and Contemporary Studies","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]},{"_id":496,"sv":"Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)","en":"Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]},{"_id":14702,"sv":"Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö","en":"History of Science, Technology and Environment","parent":[{"_id":6451,"sv":"Filosofi och teknikhistoria","en":"Philosophy and History of Technology","parent":[{"_id":5850,"sv":"Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)","en":"School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE)","parent":[{"_id":177,"id":"202100-3054","sv":"KTH","en":"KTH"}]}]},{"_id":875600,"sv":"Filosofi och historia","en":"Philosophy and History","parent":[{"_id":5850,"sv":"Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)","en":"School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE)","parent":[{"_id":177,"id":"202100-3054","sv":"KTH","en":"KTH"}]}]}]}]}]},{"other_personnel":[{"_id":"authority-person:644","orcid":"0000-0001-5100-9337","name":"Fröhlig, Florence","role":"co_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":11806,"sv":"Etnologi","en":"Ethnology","parent":[{"_id":11802,"sv":"Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier","en":"School of Historical and Contemporary Studies","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]},{"_id":483,"sv":"Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS)","en":"Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS)","parent":[{"_id":496,"sv":"Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)","en":"Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]}]},{"_id":"authority-person:75","orcid":"0000-0002-1050-4873","name":"Rindzeviciute, Egle","role":"co_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":483,"sv":"Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS)","en":"Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS)","parent":[{"_id":496,"sv":"Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)","en":"Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]},{"_id":496,"sv":"Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)","en":"Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]},{"_id":11823,"sv":"Företagsekonomi","en":"Business Studies","parent":[{"_id":11822,"sv":"Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper","en":"School of Social Sciences","parent":[{"_id":481,"sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]}]},{"name":"Kasperski, Tatiana","role":"co_investigator"}]}],"tags":[{"_id":11774,"id":"60101","sv":"Historia","en":"History"},{"_id":11760,"id":"50701","sv":"Kulturgeografi","en":"Human Geography"}],"titles":{"en":"Nuclear legacies: Negotiating radioactivity in France, Russia and Sweden"},"total_funding":"3451000","type_of_awards":{"sv":"Projektbidrag","en":"Project grant"},"publications":[{"id":"diva2:1755525","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2023]]},"title":"The logics and rhetoric of the announced shutdown of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (France)","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Fröhlig","given":"Florence","ORCID":"0000-0001-5100-9337","localId":"shfefr09","affiliation":[{"id":"11806","name":"Södertörns högskola, Etnologi"}]}],"abstract":"The closing of the aging nuclear power plant of Fessenheim was eventually concretized in June 2020 after many years of controversy, reflecting the sensibility of closing nuclear power plants in France, the world's second largest producer of nuclear power. This paper provides insight into how this highly policy vexed issue was discussed on the local level during 2017, a period when the decision regarding the shutdown was still at stake. Here, I examine the discursive strategies mobilized by key actors lobbying for the shutdown or maintenance of the nuclear power plant to enhance their argumentations. Using political discourse analyses combined with the logics approach, the article shows that the argumentation of proponents and advocates of a shutdown is structured around the same concept of sustainability. However, economic growth, social prosperity, and environmental “cautiousness” are not articulated with the same chain of equivalence and do not activate the same fantasmatic logics. ","DOI":"10.1002/sd.2577","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85153627101","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51425","issue":"6","volume":"31","page":"3968-3978","container-title":"Sustainable Development","ISSN":"1099-1719","keyword":"discourse analysis; Fessenheim; France; nuclear politics; nuclear power plant; shutdown; sustainability","publisher":"John Wiley & Sons","published":[{"raw":"2023-05-08T13:46:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-05-08T13:46:08.324+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2026-01-09T13:59:35.866+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51425"},{"id":"diva2:1370310","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2017]]},"title":"Nuclear Legacies : A saga of Modernity","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Fröhlig","given":"Florence","ORCID":"0000-0001-5100-9337","localId":"shfefr09","affiliation":[{"id":"11806","name":"Södertörns högskola, Etnologi"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39388","volume":"4","number-of-pages":"79-81","page":"99-101","container-title":"Baltic Worlds","ISSN":"2001-7308","keyword":"Nuclear legacy","publisher":"Södertörns högskola","note":"Conference report","published":[{"raw":"2019-11-14T16:00:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2019-11-14T16:00:52.565+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T20:26:22.058+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39388"},{"id":"diva2:1045796","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Biotoper i människans landskap","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Storm","given":"Anna","ORCID":"0000-0002-0553-1295","localId":"shanst10","affiliation":[{"id":"11846","name":"Södertörns högskola, Samtidshistoriska institutet"},{"id":"496","name":"Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)"}]}],"ISBN":"9789176115541","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31117","page":"21-31","container-title":"Industrisamhällets landskap : Kulturarv, miljö och hållbarhet : Regionmuseet Kristianstad 14-15 oktober 2015","keyword":"industrinatur; Ruhrområdet; Avesta; Barsebäck; industriellt kulturarv","publisher":"Svenska industriminnesföreningen","note":"[ed] Jan af Geijerstam","published":[{"raw":"2016-11-10T16:07:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-11-10T16:07:56.572+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T22:22:08.696+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31117"},{"id":"diva2:1045806","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Postindustrial landscape scars","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Storm","given":"Anna","ORCID":"0000-0002-0553-1295","localId":"shanst10","affiliation":[{"id":"11846","name":"Södertörns högskola, Samtidshistoriska institutet"},{"id":"496","name":"Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES)"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31121","page":"49-51","container-title":"Baltic Worlds","ISSN":"2001-7308","publisher":"Södertörns högskola","note":"ISBN 978-91-87843-44-0","published":[{"raw":"2016-11-10T16:26:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2016-11-10T16:26:15.000+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-07T22:21:57.456+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31121"},{"id":"diva2:1056254","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"title":"Visiting places of death. 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