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Children, Nation and Reactors: Imagining and Promoting Nuclear Power in Contemporary Ukraine (2019)

Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 61
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 51-69
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1600-0498.12226

DOI: 10.1111/1600-0498.12226

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Science and culture Visual representation; visual communication Nuclear industry Public understanding of science Nuclear power; atomic energy Nuclear reactors Children 20th century, late Ukraine

This article examines public communication about atomic energy as an important vector in the political, institutional, and technological transformations of Ukraine's nuclear industry since the breakup of the USSR. It explores the ongoing effort to make the atom more domestic, familiar, human, and accessible against the not-so-distant backdrop of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. The central focus of this article is the analysis of children's drawings of nuclear power stations produced for art contests organized by local nuclear information centers. These contests and other activities of the centers have contributed to the increased visibility of nuclear power in Ukraine. The drawings reveal the inscription of the atom into complex representations about the Ukrainian nation, its past, present, traditions, and modernity. The analysis of these drawings as well as government and nuclear power station (NPP) documents, press articles, and interviews indicates that the notion of the “domestication” of the atom is a particularly appropriate way to describe the banalization of nuclear technologies in Ukraine.

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Article Jaume Sastre‐Juan; Jaume Valentines‐Álvarez (2019) Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies Through Display. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 2-13). unapi

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