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| Author(s): |
Ana Paula Camelo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2015-09-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Marko Synésio Alves Monteiro;
André Tosi Furtado;
Gabriela Marques Di Giulio;
Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade;
Rafael de Brito Dias
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| Advisor: | Marko Synésio Alves Monteiro |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to investigate the Brazilian Nuclear Program (PNB) stating as reference the Fukushima nuclear accident. Its main purpose is to analyze how the Japanese accident impacted the PNB. Therefore, the program will be analyzed within 10-years (2004-2014) in order to answer this question. The discussion launched in this thesis is based on the framework of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, which enables the understanding of socio-technical controversies beyond the social or technological determinism. Through the discussion of the concepts of framings, socio-technical imaginary, risk and governance of science and technology, the research shows how the controversy in focus has resulted in the opportunity to consider not only economic, technological, environmental issues about nuclear energy but also its political dimensions and challenges. Among these challenges, and from very different perspectives, we identified questions about the role nuclear energy plays in the Brazilian context, the future of the program and the decision-making process on these issues. Despite the central purpose of this study is essentially on risks, PNB and on the Brazilian context, it should be pointed that it is impossible to consider it in isolation of what is happening internationally (considering interests, tensions, relations between actors, etc.) The research thereby identifies key implications of Fukushima in the international context but focuses on the disputes regarding possible review of the PNB. It also highlights how the socio-technical controversies, such as the nuclear energy, demand or impose a discussion on the governance of science and technology, risk and on the engagement of different sectors and actors in decision-making on issues, that are at the same time about energy, technology and nationality relevance. All this reflection is made from a multi-sited analysis, which allowed following the controversy surrounding nuclear energy, reheated by the Fukushima accident. A variety of data and actors were considered in this sense, in order to capture possible disputes introduced around the program and its future (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/00583-3 - The social construction of risk and the controversial Brazilian Nuclear Program: among the scientific, the political and the public |
| Grantee: | Ana Paula Camelo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |