Session 1: Policy
Chair: Arne Kaijser (KTH)
Discussants: Ahmed Abdulla (Carnegie Mellon University), Marianne Fisher (International Atomic Energy Agency)
Pierre-Benoît Joly (IFRIS) & Reza Lahidji (Menon)
The nuclear industry and the conflicting logics of safety, efficiency and openness
Andy Stirling & Phil Johnstone (University of Sussex)
Important hidden interdependencies between support for civil nuclear power and commitments to military nuclear capabilities
Başak Saraç-Lesavre (University of Manchester)
Styles of valuation: Evaluation and valuation of future nuclear investments
Tae Hoon Kim (KTH)
Past lessons for future nuclear technologies in the age of green energy transition: from technological teleology to coexistence
Session 2: Publics
Chair: Claire Mays (Institut Symlog)
Discussants: Kemal Pasamehmetoglu (INL), Denia Djokic (Harvard Kennedy School)
Kapil Patil & Shyamjeet Yadav (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
The Absent Dialogue: Nuclear Power and Social Science Scholarship in India
Nadeem Goussous (Centre Internationale de Formation Européenne)
A Public Perception Analysis for Nuclear Energy: The Case of the Jordanian Controversy
Alexander Neil (Bucephalus Consulting), Todd Allen (Third Way), Duane Bratt (Mount Royal University), Margot Hurlbert (University of Regina), Peter Phillips (University of Saskathchewan), Robert Walker (independent)
Thinking big about small: Using the full lifecycle footprint as an example of a “meaningful engagement” issue
Todd Allen, Suzanne Hobbs Baker, Gabrielle Hoelzle, Carrie Harlow & Aditi Rajadhyaksha (University of Michigan)
A New Methodology for Advanced Nuclear Energy Site Selection for Engagement
Session 3: Reactors
Chair: Jeremy Rayner (University of Saskatchewan)
Discussants: Paul Wilson (University of Wisconsin), Claire le Renard (IFRIS)
Allison Macfarlane (George Washington University)
Social Science Insights on Fast Reactors
Sonja Schmid (Virginia Tech)
From “inherently safe” to “proliferation resistant”: New perspectives on reactor designs
Stéphanie Tillement (IMT Atlantique) & Frédéric Garcias (Lille University)
Aditi Verma (NEA)
Session 4: Waste
Chair: Başak Saraç-Lesavre (University of Manchester)
Discussants: Allison Macfarlane (GWU), Bernard Boullis (CEA)
Andrei Stsiapanau (Vytautas Magnus University)
Public negotiations about nuclear waste geological disposal in Russia
Mito Akiyoshi (Senshu University), William Lawless (Paine College), John Whitton (University of Central Lancashire), Ioan Charnley-Parry (University of Central Lancashire) & William Nicholas Butler (Wofford College)
Celine Parotte (Spiral Research Center)
Arne Kaijser & Thomas Kaijserfeld (KTH)
Session 5: Safety and Culture
Chair: Aditi Verma (NEA)
Discussants: Hideaki Shiroyama (University of Tokyo), Caroline Pike (IAEA)
Elsa Gisquet, Sophie Beauquier & Emilie Poulain (IRSN)
To revisit the safety culture: Toward a new Cultural analysis framework for safety management
Tatiana Melnitskaia & Alesia Yunnikova (Rosatom Technical Academy)
Session 6: Learning After Crisis
Chair: Olivier Borraz (Sciences Po)
Discussants: Sonja Schmid (Virginia Tech), Valerie Arnhold (Sciences Po)
Eri Kanamori (Ritsumeikan University)
“Economizing” TEPCO’s responsibility for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Kohta Juraku (Tokyo Denki University) & Shin-etsu Sugawara (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan)
Mariana Lyra (University of Eastern Finland)
Keynote
Discussant: Olivier Borraz (Sciences Po)
Sheila Jasanoff (Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School)
Between Dread and Denial: Social Science in the Nuclear Age
Session 8: Pedagogy
Chair: Ian Farnan (Cambridge University)
Discussants: Markku Lehtonen (UPF), Sama Bilbao y Leon (NEA)
Duane Bratt & Brett McCollum (Mount Royal University)
Teaching Nuclear Energy: The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity in the Classroom
Lisa Marshall (North Carolina State University)
Geographies of Energy – A course in sociotechnical decision-making
Denia Djokic (Harvard Kennedy School) & Raluca Scarlat (Berkeley)
Perspectives on STS in Nuclear Engineering
Meritxell Martell (Merience) & Piotr Stankiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
The importance of integrating social sciences and humanities in the education of future practitioners. The TEACHENER project
Session 9: Organizational and Institutional innovations
Chair: Maria del Mar Rubio Varas (University of Navarra)
Discussants: Gaston Meskens (SCK-CEN), John Lindberg (World Nuclear Association)
Mariia Iakovleva, Ken Coates & Jeremy Rayner (University of Saskatchewan)
Breaking out of a niche: lessons for SMRs from sustainability transitions studies
Vincent Ialenti (George Washington University)
Mankala chronicles: Nuclear Energy Financing & Cooperative Corporate Form in Finland
Markku Lehtonen (NEA, Pompeu Fabra University)
Framing megaproject pathologies – the NEA and the EPR reactor
Marie Kerveillant (ESSEC), Michaël Mangeon (independent), François Jeffroy (IRSN) & Olivier Saulpic (ESCP)
Session 10: Research and Praxis
Chair: Christine Fassert (IRSN)
Discussants: Matthew Bunn (Harvard Kennedy School), Egle Rindiviciute (Kingston University)
Olivier Chanton (IRSN), Michael Mangeon (independent) & Alexandre Largier (IRSN)
Tom Wellock (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Social Scientists in an adversarial environment: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Organizational Factors Research
Susan Molyneux-Hodgson (University of Exeter)
Addressing the Nexus: Approaches to enabling cross-discipline and cross-organizational research and action
