TY - JOUR
T1 - Spreading the atom, encapsulating politics
T2 - a story of confinement on a nuclear containment building in Barcelona
AU - Valentines Álvarez, Jaume
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In 2005, the containment building of the first nuclear reactor in Catalonia was silently demolished in the streets of Barcelona. The destruction was the last step in the long history of invisibilization of a nuclear facility that had been inaugurated forty years before as a “radiant symbol” of the autarkic policies of General Franco's dictatorship (1939-1977). What did the containment building contain beyond radioactivity? What ideas about the atom and the nuclear dangers did it foster? This paper will focus on the history and geography of the nuclear building with the aim of exploring the intersection between the “politics of containment” and the “politics of invisibility”.
AB - In 2005, the containment building of the first nuclear reactor in Catalonia was silently demolished in the streets of Barcelona. The destruction was the last step in the long history of invisibilization of a nuclear facility that had been inaugurated forty years before as a “radiant symbol” of the autarkic policies of General Franco's dictatorship (1939-1977). What did the containment building contain beyond radioactivity? What ideas about the atom and the nuclear dangers did it foster? This paper will focus on the history and geography of the nuclear building with the aim of exploring the intersection between the “politics of containment” and the “politics of invisibility”.
U2 - 10.1051/shsconf/202213601003
DO - 10.1051/shsconf/202213601003
M3 - Article
SN - 2261-2424
VL - 136
JO - Matters of Containment: Material Approaches to the Handling of Threats in Modern World (Les Ulis: EDP Sciences, 2022), SHS Web of Conferences Series
JF - Matters of Containment: Material Approaches to the Handling of Threats in Modern World (Les Ulis: EDP Sciences, 2022), SHS Web of Conferences Series
ER -