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> II International Workshop: A Comparative Study of European Nuclear Energy
> Programs from the 1940s until the 1970s.
> Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), December 3-5, 2009
> Debate about nuclear energy is back on the political agenda. In recent
> discussions of the issues of energy autonomy and pollution, public opinion
> seems to have perceived that nuclear energy is on the verge of a
> come-back. If this is indeed the case, keeping the nuclear option open
> will require a number of actions by governments and industries in the
> nuclear sector. Research and development will be needed fully to assess
> the technical feasibility of applications at the industrial level and the
> economic competitiveness of nuclear versus fossil fuels and renewable
> sources. Governments and international organisations will have to play an
> important role by supporting such research and development. The complexity
> and demands of the nuclear energy option in terms of technology, industry,
> economics and politics constitute strong enough reasons to examine it from
> a wide variety of perspectives. Current discussion focuses exclusively on
> the future prospects of nuclear energy, in line with the belief that the
> new technological possibilities are based, above all, on new scientific
> and technical knowledge.
> It is therefore necessary to argue for both an empirico-historical and a
> theoretical-systematic analysis of the processes of technological
> development in general and of nuclear energy in particular. The kind of
> interdisciplinary historical reflection on the development of the atomic
> programs which is proposed here will make a paradigmatic contribution to
> the generation of a framework of analysis for the assessment of new
> policies of technological development in general, and that of energy in
> particular.
> From this point of view, it is important to reflect on the nature of the
> nuclear development programs between the 1950s and the 1980s in order to
> determine their internal dynamics, establish their defining
> characteristics and be able to bring the results to the present-day
> discussion. The aim of the proposed Workshop is to provide a comparative
> systematic and historical study of the development and impact of nuclear
> programs in those European countries which hoped to reach higher levels of
> industrial and economic development by fostering nuclear power during the
> postwar period. One of the main aims of the present Workshop is to promote
> interdisciplinary collaboration, which will aid the development of
> explicative models which can contribute to an understanding of problems of
> economic and industrial development, and of scientific policy and
> management.
> This Workshop is conceived of as a mature reflection on the interactions
> between science, technology, society, politics, and economic development
> during the decades of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in Europe. The
> generation and establishment of techno-scientific systems, the development
> of particular technologies, the transfer of technical knowledge,
> technological diffusion and industrial development all have to be
> discussed within the context of actual case studies of nuclear energy. The
> aim is to analyse in a comparative way, the generation and establishment
> of nuclear programs both at the macro or international level, in relation
> to its transnational elements, and at the micro or national level, with
> its articulation in various national contexts. The countries under
> consideration, which freed their nuclear programs from military aims, are:
> the Scandinavian nations, West Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria and
> Italy. Some of the aspects to be considered in this Workshop are the
> generation of a technological discourse that justified the development of
> nuclear energy; the impact of nuclear programs on the scientific and
> technological development of the respective countries; the role played by
> international relations and the context of the Cold War in the transfer of
> nuclear technology; the importance of nuclear energy in industrial and
> economic development; the relationship established between the receivers
> of nuclear technology and those countries which exported it (specially the
> U.S. and USSR); the role played by supra-national agencies (IAEA,
> EURATOM); the (possibly) common parameters in all of the projects and the
> possibility of generating a general analytical framework for all cases.
> Because of the characteristics of nuclear energy, the results of this
> Workshop will be of great interest to politicians, the administrators of
> scientific and industrial policies, sociologists of science and
> technology, historians of technology and science and of economics, and
> general historians of 20th-century Europe.
>
> Programm
> Thursday, 3 December 2009
> 15:00 Wellcome
>
> 15:15 Albert Presas i Puig (MPIWG, UPF)
> Presentation: A Comparative Study of European Nuclear Energy Programs
>
> 15:45 Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
> Models of organizing and performing research in Europe in the second half
> of the 20th century and the role of the U.S.
>
> 16:45 Coffee break
>
> 17:00  John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
> US and UK perceptions of Euratom in the 1950s.
>
> 18:00 Angelo Baracca, Matteo Gerlini (University of Florence)
> Italian fast breeder reactor program
>
> Friday, 4 December
> 09:00 Christian Forstner (University of Jena)
> Nuclear Energy in Austria
>
> 10.00 Mar Rubio (Universidad de Navarra)
> Nuclear Energy in Spain
>
> 11:00 Coffe break
>
> 11:30 Willy Marth (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH)
> The German Fast Breeder Programm, A Historical Overview
>
> 13:00 Lunch
>
> 15:00 Margrit Müller (University of Zurich)
> The Nuclear Energy Programm in Switzerland
>
>
> 16:00 Henrik Knudsen (University of Aarhus, Denamark)
> Nuclear Energy Research in a Small Country System of Innovation:
> The case of Denmark
>
> 17:00 Coffe break
>
> 17:15 Maja Fjaestad (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
> The Swedish Breed Reactor Programm in a Cold war context
>
> 18:15 Jahnavi Phalkey (Imperial College, London)
> Nuclear Energy Programm in India
>
>
> Saturday, 5 December
> 09:00 Júlia Gaspar (Lisabon University)
> A Fascist Experience: the Portuguese Nuclear Programme (1945-1973)
>
>
> 10:00 Antonio Tiseo (University of Florence)
> The Carter Administration and the Non-Proliferation policies
>
> 11:00 Coffe break
>
> 11:30 -- 12:30
> General Conclusion
>
> Sessions start on Dec. 3th , 3:00 p.m. and take place at
> Universitat Pompeu Fabra
> First session, building Roger de Lluria, Aula 40.047C
> Second and third sessions, building Jaime I, Aula: 20.287
> C. Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona
> Metro: Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica (L4)
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