Publications

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Books / Special Issues

  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. and De la Torre, J. (eds ), The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain: Governance, Business and Finance (Palgrave: London, 2017).
  • Kaijser, A., and J.-H. Meyer. (eds) "Siting Nuclear Installations at the Border. Special issue." Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3 (2018): 1-178. Accessible at: https://www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jhes/2018/3/+
  • Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019).
  • Kirchhof, A. M., (ed.) Pathways into and out of Nuclear Power in Western Europe: Austria, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, and Sweden . Münster: Deutsches Museum Verlag, forthcoming 2019. Soon available on: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/studies/
  • Melnikova, N.V., Artemov, E.T., Bedel, A. E. Voloshin, N. P. Mikheev, M. V. The History of Interaction between Nuclear Energy and Society in Russia (in Russian and English). Ekaterinburg: Ural University Press 2018. Available from: http://www.ihist.uran.ru/news/428/_aview_b523 .

Journal Articles

  • Arapostathis, S. and Fotopoulos, Y. (2019)"Transnational Energy Flows, Capacity Building and Greece's Quest for Energy Autarky, 1914-2010", Energy Policy 127 (March 2019), 39-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.022
  • Bud, R. and Trischler, H. (2019) “A Public Technology: Nuclear Energy in Europe” History and Technology 35, https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2018.1570674
  • Butler, S. (2018), ‘”Networks of knowledge and power: working collaboratively on the HoNESt project” , Science Museum Group Journal, , DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/180907 .
  • Cotton, M. (2018) “Environmental justice as scalar parity: lessons from nuclear waste management“ Social Justice Research 31(3): 238-259. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-018-0311-z
  • De la Torre, J. and Rubio-Varas, M.d.M, (2016), “Nuclear power for a dictatorship: State and Business involvement in the Spanish Atomic Program, 1950–85”, Journal of Contemporary History 51(2):385-411, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009415599448
  • De la Torre, J. and Rubio-Varas, M.d.M, (2018) ‘Learning by doing: the first Spanish nuclear power plant’, Business History Review, 92(1): 29-55, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680518000053
  • Espluga Trenc, J., A. Prades, B. Medina, A. Presas, M. Rubio-Varas y J. De la Torre. (2017). “Las dimensiones sociales de la percepción de la energía nuclear. Un análisis del caso español (1960-2015)”. Revista Internacional de Sociología 75 (4): 1-18. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/ris.2017.75.4.17.02
  • Forstner, C. (forthcoming 2019): “The Failure of Nuclear Energy in Austria: Austria's Nuclear Energy Programs in Historical Perspective.” Deutsches Museum Studies 3. Available from: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/studies/
  • Gerlini, M. (forthcoming 2019): “The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Italy” Deutsches Museum Studies 3. Available from: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/studies/
  • Hasenöhrl, U. and Meyer, J.-H. (forthcoming 2019) “The Energy Challenge in Historical Perspective”. Technology and Culture (Special issue on “Challenges”, ed. by E.v.d. Vleuten).
  • Kaijser, A. and Meyer, J-H. (2018) “’The World´s Worst Located Nuclear Power Plant‘: Danish and Swedish cross-border perspectives on the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebäck.” Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3 (2018), 71-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JHES.5.116795
  • Kaijser, A. and Meyer J-H. (2018) “Nuclear Installations at the Border. Transnational connections and international implications. An Introduction.” Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3, 1-32.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JHES.5.116793
  • Kaijser, A. (forthcoming 2019): “The Referendum that Preserved Nuclear Power and other Critical Events in the History of Nuclear Power in Sweden.” Deutsches Museum Studies 3. Available from: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/studies/
  • Kasperski, T. (2017), “Une transition vers plus de nucléaire? Analyse comparée des politiques énergétiques russe et ukrainienne.” Revue internationale de politique comparée, vol. 24,(1), 101-125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ripc.241.0101
  • Kasperski, T. (forthcoming February 2019), 'Children, Nation And Reactors: Imagining and Promoting Nuclear Power In Contemporary Ukraine.' Centaurus
  • Kirchhof, A. (2018) “East-West German Transborder Entanglements through the Nuclear Waste Sites in Gorleben and Morsleben”. Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3, 145-178, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JHES.5.116797
  • Kirchhof, A.(forthcoming 2019): “Pathways Into and Out of Nuclear Power in five Western European Countries. An Introduction”, Deutsches Museum Studies 3. Available from: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/studies/
  • Kirchhof, A., Trischler, H. (forthcoming 2019): “The History behind West Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out”, Deutsches Museum Studies 3. Available from: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/studies/
  • ’Atomkraft – nej tak’. How Denmark did not introduce commercial nuclear power plants
  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M., Carvalho, A. and Torre, J.d.l. (2018) “Siting (and mining) at the border: Spain-Portugal nuclear transboundary issues.” Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3, 33-69, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JHES.5.116794 .
  • Tchalakov, Ivan, and Tihomir Mitev. 2019. "Energy dependence behind the Iron Curtain: The Bulgarian experience." Energy Policy 126:47-56. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.008

Book Chapters

  • Arapostathis, S., Bud, R., Trischler, H. “Nuclear Energy in Europe: A Public Technology” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Cotton, M. “Nuclear power and environmental justice – the case for political equality” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Cotton, M. (forthcoming 2019) “Planning, infrastructure and low carbon energy”, in Davoudi, S., Blanco, H., Cowell, R., and White, I. (eds.) Companion to Environmental Planning and Sustainability (Routledge, Abingdon).
  • De la Torre, J., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M and Sanz Lafuente, G.,'Engineers and Scientist as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Programme' In: Pretel, D., Camprubí, L. (eds) Technology and Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) pp. 313-340. Available from: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-75450-5_12.pdf
  • De la Torre, J., ‘Who was Who in the Making of Spanish Nuclear Programme, c.1950–1985’ in Rubio-Varas and De la Torre (Eds), The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain: Governance, Business and Finance (Palgrave: London, 2017), pp. 33 - 65
  • Espluga, J., Konrad, W., Enander, A., Medina, B., Prades, A., Cools, P. “Different but similar. Public perceptions of nuclear energy in a cross-country perspective ” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Josephson, P. “Continuity or Change? Nuclear and Energy and Society in Europe between national experiences and international relations from the 1950s to the present” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Josephson, P., Lehtonen, M., Gerlini, M. “International Organisations and the Atom: How the IAEA, EURATOM, COMECON and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency developed societal engagement” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Kaijser, A. and Meyer, J.-H. “Nuclear installations at the border: Transnational connections and international implications” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Kaijser, A., Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. . “Introduction” in: Kaijser, A., Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds ), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Kaijser, A. Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. “Conclusions and Policy Implications” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Lehtonen, M., Butler, S., Cotton, M., Kaijser, A., “Between Trust and Mistrust. Changing radioactive waste management policies in four forerunner countries” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Lehtonen, M. & Kojo, M. (forthcoming). The role and functions of community benefit schemes: Comparison of the Finnish and French nuclear waste disposal projects. In: Brunnengräber, A., Di Nucci, M.R., Mez, L. & Schreurs, M. (eds.), Governing Nuclear Waste: Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability . Vol. III. Springer.
  • Meyer, J-H. (2019) Nature: From protecting Regional Landscapes to Regionalist Self-Assertion in the Age of the Global Environment. In: Núñez Seixas XM and Storm E (eds) Regionalism and Modern Europe: Regional Identity Construction and Regional Movements from 1890 until the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 65-82.
  • Meyer, J.-H. "Bürgerschaftliches Engagement über Grenzen? Europäische Umweltpolitik und transnationale Vernetzung von Umweltgruppen in den 1970er Jahren." In Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung. Infrastrukturen, Akteure, Diskurse, edited by Jens Ivo Engels, Nina Janich, Jochen Monstadt and Dieter Schott, Frankfurt: Campus, 2017, 52-71.
  • Michelsen, K.E., Hristov, I. “Saving Soviet Reactors. International governance of nuclear power in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Iron Curtain” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Muñoz Delgado, B. and, Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. ‘Energy planning, nuclear promises, and realities’ in Rubio-Varas and De la Torre (Eds), The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain: Governance, Business and Finance (Palgrave: London, 2017). pp.217-248
  • Presas I Puig, A. “One movement or many? On the curious diversity of anti-nuclear movements in Europe” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Presas i Puig, A. ‘Human Capital and Physics Research for the Spanish Nuclear Program’ in Rubio-Varas and De la Torre (Eds), The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain: Governance, Business and Finance (Palgrave: London, 2017), pp. 97 – 117
  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. and De la Torre, J., “Spain- Eximbamk’s Billion Dollar Client: the Role of the US financing the Spanish Nuclear program” in A. Beltran, L. Laborie, P. Lanthier and S. Le Gallic, eds., Electric Worlds. Creations, circulations, tensions, and transitions, 19th-21st centuries (Peter Lang, 2016), pp.245 – 270 Available from: https://www.peterlang.com/view/9782807600287/chapter11.xhtml .
  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. “’Too Cheap to Meter” The changing economic contexts of nuclear energy’” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)
  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. and De la Torre, J. ‘How did Spain become the major US nuclear client?’, in Rubio-Varas and De la Torre (Eds), The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain: Governance, Business and Finance (Palgrave: London, 2017). pp.119-153
  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. and De la Torre, J. ‘Seeking the perennial fountain of world’s prosperity’, in Rubio-Varas and De la Torre (Eds), The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain: Governance, Business and Finance (Palgrave: London, 2017). pp.1-32
  • Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. and De la Torre, J., “Spain- Eximbamk’s Billion Dollar Client: the Role of the US financing the Spanish Nuclear program” in A. Beltran, L. Laborie, P. Lanthier and S. Le Gallic, eds., Electric Worlds. Creations, circulations, tensions, and transitions, 19th-21st centuries , (Peter Lang, 2016) pp. 245-270, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0352-6605-4 .
  • Whitton, J. and Charnley-Parry, I. “Crossing disciplinary Boundaries: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations” in: Kaijser, A, Lehtonen, M., Meyer, J.-H., Rubio-Varas, M.d.M. (eds), Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present (Energy and Society Series) (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2019)

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