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Lehtonen, M. 2023. Brand new or more of the same nuclear? (De)constructing the economic promise of the European Pressurised Reactor in France and the UK. Science as Culture 32(1): 29-57.

Lehtonen, M. 2020 (published in July 2022). The discursive construction of the economic sustainability of nuclear energy megaprojects: British, French, and Finnish debates on state support. Journal of Mega Infrastructure and Sustainable Development 2(2): 154-186.

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Kojo, M., Vilhunen, T., Kari, M., Litmanen, T. & Lehtonen, M. 2022. The Art of Being Ethical and Responsible: Print Media Debate on Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Finland and Sweden. Social Justice Research 35, 157–187.

Lehtonen, M., Prades, A., Espluga, J. & Arapostathis, S. 2022. Introduction to the special issue "Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: historical and comparative experience from Europe". Journal of Risk Research 25(5): 547-561.

Lehtonen, M., Prades, A., Espluga, J. & Konrad, W. 2022. The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization. Journal of Risk Research 25(5): 613-631.

Lehtonen, M., Kojo, M., Kari, M. Jartti, T. & Litmanen, T. 2022. Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: Illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management. Journal of Risk Research 25(5): 577-593.

Lehtonen, M. 2021. NEA framing nuclear megaproject 'pathologies': vices of the modern Western society? Nuclear Technology 207(9): 1329-1350.

Lehtonen, M., Kojo, M., Kari, M., Litmanen, T. 2021. Healthy mistrust or complacent confidence? Civic vigilance in the reporting by leading newspapers on nuclear waste disposal in Finland and France. Risk, Hazards, & Crisis in Public Policy 12(2): 130-157.

Kari, M., Kojo, M. & Lehtonen, M. 2021. Role of the host communities in final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Finland and Sweden. Progress in Nuclear Energy 133 (March). 

Lehtonen, M. 2020. Harder governance built on soft foundations: experience from OECD peer reviews. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 22(6): 814-829. Special Issue "Harder Soft-Governance" in European Climate and Energy Policy: Following a New Trend?

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