报告题目：Reinterpreting the History of Atomic Energy: From Nuclear Physics to Hydraulic Engineering

　　报告 人：Per H？gselius

　　内容提要：The 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan has highlighted the centrality of water in nuclear energy operations. This lecture will reinterpret the history of nuclear energy as a history of water. The utmost importance of large-scale uninterrupted water flows for cooling nuclear facilities, and the need to simultaneously protect them from flooding and from contaminating their wet surroundings, have turned nuclear scientists and engineers into a special category of hydraulic scientists and engineers. From this perspective, nuclear power is not necessarily as “modern” as it might seem at first glance. The “nuclear age”, to the extent that it can be said to have materialized, is fundamentally a hydraulic age, and as such it draws heavily on experience gathered from “hydraulic societies” in the past. These historical affinities become particularly visible in times of crisis, especially when there is a nuclear accident.

　　时　 间：2014年3月28日（周五）上午9:30—11:30

　　地　 点：中国科学院自然科学史研究所209会议室 

　　报告人简介：Per H？gselius is Associate Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and currently a Young International Scientist at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds an MSc degree in Engineering Physics, a PhD degree in Innovation Studies, and a Docent (habilitation) degree in History of Science and Technology. His research primarily focuses on the history of energy and infrastructures in international perspective. His latest book is the freshly published Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, 2013).