The NUCLEARWATERS team is proud to announce that our project member Siegfried Evens has been named the winner of the first William Burr Dissertation Prize in Nuclear History, awarded jointly by the…

Federaal minister van Energie Mathieu Bihet (MR) denkt niet dat de kernreactoren Doel 3 en Tihange 2 definitief buiten gebruik zijn. Dat heeft hij gezegd in de commissie Energie in de Kamer. Bihet gaa...

Kernenergie is nooit een kerntaak van de Belgische overheid geweest. Het is twijfelachtig of het dat anno 2026 wel kan zijn, schrijft Siegfried Evens, postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de KU Leuven en de ...

This paper explores the historical formation of nuclear engineering expertise and education in the United States and Sweden between the 1950s and 1970s. It investigates how the definition of nuclea...

Engie may need €3 billion more for nuclear dismantling provisions, a figure the company calls unacceptable.

An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. T

Starting in 1970, this article studies how Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was built. It follows the station’s operational history until 1982. During that year, reactor block one suffered a torn reactor...

Recently my new article about nuclear Ukraine was published. In this article, I am using a technocratic culture perspective to analyse what was going on at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant before that fateful night in April 1986, when reactor block four exploded.

An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. T

Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of...

An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water. Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standar...