Publications
2024
Articles
- Lehtonen, M. 2024. Taking stock of the SMR promise. Nuclear Engineering International. January. Pp. 18-21.
2023
Articles
- Kojo, M., Tornberg, S., Kari M., Vainio A., Litmanen, T. & Lehtonen M. 2023. Naapuriksi pienydinvoimala? ATS Ydintekniikka 52(1): 24-28.
- Kojo, M., Lehtonen, M., Kari, M. & Litmanen, T. 2023. Institutionalizing a promise: The case of small modular reactor regulation in Finland. 2023 19th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), 6-8 June 2023, Lappeenranta, Finland. Pp. 1-6.
Conference presentations
- Kojo, M. 2023. Kansalaisten luottamus ydinjätteen loppusijoitukseen. Tekniikan päivät, Energiaturvallisuus ja yhteiskunta, Helsinki, 11-15 January.
- Husu, H.-M. & Kari, M. 2023. The making of the future with expectations and techno-scientific promises. Panel session at the Annual Sociology Conference of the Westermarck Society, Tampere, Finland, 23-24 March.
- Kojo, M., Lehtonen, M., Kari, M., Litmanen, T. 2023. Institutionalizing a promise: The case of small modular reactor regulation in Finland. Conference “Fostering action with narratives”, Riga, 30 March.
- Lehtonen, M. 2023. Techno-scientific promises and (anti)nuclear communities: Small Modular Reactor promises in five countries. Presentation at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 20 April.
- Kojo, M., Lehtonen, M., Kari, M. & Litmanen, T. 2023. Institutionalizing a promise: The case of small modular reactor regulation in Finland. 2023 19th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lappeenranta, Finland, 6-8 June.
- Lehtonen, M. 2023. Constructing techno-scientific promises via constructive mistrust: framework for analysis and illustrative examples from the nuclear sector. FINT Workshop 2023, "Trust within and between organizations", Helsinki, 14-17 June.
- Litmanen, T., Lehtonen, M., Kari, M. & Kojo, M. 2023. Controversies over techno-scientific promises as societal risk assessment: debates concerning the small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Canada and Finland. The 31st Annual SRA Conference “Risk Assessment in a Changing World”, Lund, 18-21 June.
- Lehtonen, M., Kari, M. & Litmanen, T. 2023. The Promise of Small Nuclear Reactors: Constructing and Deconstructing a Nuclear Renaissance in Canada and Finland. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, 25 June - 1 July.
- Husu, H.-M. & Kojo, M. 2023. The Impact of Crises on the Hegemony of Nuclear Power Elite in Finland: A Neo-Gramscian Approach. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, 25 June - 1 July.
- Kari, M., Kiviluoma, N., Lehtonen, M., Litmanen, T. & Husu, H.-M. 2023. Small Modular Reactors and the Spatial Distribution of Risk: Local Perceptions on the Novel Decentralised Model of Nuclear Energy Expansion in Canada and Finland. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, 25 June - 1 July.
- Kari, M., Litmanen, T., Kojo, M. & Lehtonen, M. Technological hype, promises and expectations: Discussion on Small Modular Reactors in Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) in 2000-2022. Session "The making of (un)sustainable futures through socio-technical promising" at the 9th EUGEO Congress, 4-7 September, Barcelona.
- Lehtonen, M. 2023. The Promise of Small Modular Reactors: Recent trends and examples from Canada and Finland. REFORM group (Restructuring Energy Systems for Optimal Resource Management) seminar, Raitenhaslach, Germany, 10 September.
- Husu, M.-M. & Kojo, M. 2023. The impact of crises on the hegemony of nuclear power elite in Finland: A Neo-Gramscian approach. Conference “Energy Transitions in Times of Crisis”, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University, Stockholm, 21-22 September.
- Lehtonen, M. 2023. Constructing techno-scientific promises through(out) history: On the historical underpinnings of today’s nuclear promises. Conference “Energy Transitions in Times of Crisis”, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University, Stockholm, 21-22 September .
- Lehtonen, M. 2023. The Promise of Small Modular Reactors as a sustainability transition technology. Seminar presentation at the Eindhoven University of Technology, 12 October.
- Lehtonen, M. 2023. La promesa de los pequeños reactores nucleares (SMR) para transiciones energéticas – y más allá… Seminar presentation at the Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile, 10 November 2023.
Seminars and workshops organised by the project
- Techno-scientific promises of nuclear energy in the past and present: Finnish and Swedish perspectives. Researcher workshop. Stockholm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, 25 May.
- Techno-scientific promises of nuclear energy and small modular reactors: Finnish and Swedish perspectives. Researcher and stakeholder workshop. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 26 May.
- Lehtonen, M. & Litmanen, T. 2023. The making of (un)sustainable futures through socio-technical promising. A session at the 9th EUGEO Congress, 4-7 September, Barcelona.
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Reforming nuclear safety regulation: Current challenges in the light of history. Witness seminar. Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona 14-15 December.
2022
Articles
- Kojo, M. 2022. "Geopolitiikan riskit haastavat yhteiskunnan kokonaisedun". Kaleva, 19 March 2022.
- Kojo, M. & Husu, H.-M. 2022. ”And Rosatom is certainly a very good partner also for Fennovoima - how the Finnish MPs justified the Russia-connection in nuclear policy” (in Finnish). Politiikasta, 6 June 2022.
- Kojo, M., Lehtonen, M., Litmanen, T. & Kiviluoma, H. 2022. “We have a solution”: Transforming the promise of national responsibility for nuclear waste management. TATuP - Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice 3, 31-36. Special Issue “The future of high-level radioactive waste disposal: What are the developments? What are the challenges after a site selection?”
- Lehtonen, M. 2022. Building promises of small modular reactors—one conference at a time. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 22, 2022.
- Kojo, M. & Vainio, A. 2022. Luvatusta ydinvoiman piristysruiskeesta on jäljellä hakattu Hanhikivi. Kaleva, December 23, 2022.
Conference presentations
- Kojo, M., Kiviluoma, N., Litmanen, T., Husu, H.-M., Kari, M.& Lehtonen, M. 2022. Opponents and supporters of SMR: The case of district heating in the Helsinki Metropolitan area. Presented at the Nuclear Energy Ecosystems – Open Business Day 2022, "Building nuclear energy future together", 3-4 May 2022, Helsinki.
- Kojo, M., Kiviluoma, N., Litmanen, T., Husu, H.-M., Kari, M. & Lehtonen, M. 2022. Public participation in the planning of Small Modular Reactor projects: Residents’ views in the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland. Responsible Business Research Seminar, 16-17 March 2022, Tampere, Finland.
- Husu, H.-M. 2022. Communities of Promise Concerning Energy Futures in Social Science Research on Energy. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, "Energy and Climate Transformations", Manchester, 20-23 June 2022.
- Lehtonen, M. 2022. Techno-scientific promises and (anti)nuclear communities: Small Modular Reactor promises in Canada and Finland. Paper presented at the 25th REFORM group meeting, "Energy Transformation and Climate Challenges", Salzburg, 3-6 October 2022.
- Kojo, M. & Surwillo, I. 2022. Energy trilemma at times of crisis: The changing promises of nuclear energy in Finland and Poland. IFZO Workshop, Greifswald, 20-21 October 2022.
- Kojo, M., Litmanen, T., Kiviluoma, N. & Tornberg, S. 2022. A Small Modular Reactor next door? Opinions of Finnish-speaking residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area concerning a possible SMR unit. Nuclear Science and Technology Symposium 2022 (SYP2022), Helsinki, 1–2 November 2022.
- Kojo, M., Tornberg, S. & Vainio, A. (with Airola, M. & Gotcheva, N.) 2022. Societal acceptability of SMR plants: Residents’ opinions in the Helsinki Metropolitan area. EcoSMR Final Seminar, Helsinki, 23 November 2022.
- Vainio, A. 2022. Abandoned nuclear town: Residents’ expectations of the impacts of building a nuclear power plant in the municipality of Pyhäjoki, Finland. Networking seminar, Rauma, 30 November 2022.
- Lehtonen, M. 2022. Sustainability promises and optimism: from modernist megaprojects to presentist small modular reactors? Presentation at the workshop “Nuclear Renaissance: Technology, Society and Sustainable Development”, University of Basel, 15 December 2022.
Seminars and workshops
- The techno-scientific promises of nuclear energy in the past and present: Finnish and Spanish perspectives. Researcher workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, 21 November 2022.