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How microbes network (and are networked) in geological disposal research: a sociological perspective
Van Oudheusden, Michiel; Schröder, Jantine; Turcanu, Catrinel
2017Project Annual Meeting of the European project MIND (Microbiology in nuclear waste disposal)
 

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Keywords :
Actor-Network Theory; Microbes; MIND; Radioactive Waste; Safety; Social Sciences
Abstract :
[en] In MIND subtask 3.2, we ascertain whether and how microbes, microbiologists, and microbiology are enrolled into research on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. We adopt a social studies of science (actor-network theory) perspective that observes how actors within MIND (e.g. MIND researchers, members of the MIND Implementer Review Board) and outside the project (e.g. geologists, waste management regulators, policy makers) process data and generate insights on the role of microbes in waste disposal, and how these processes elicit challenges and opportunities for enrolment. Examples of the latter include mixed appreciations of the impact of microbial activity on artificial barriers (e.g. negligible vs. substantial), the scope for, and appeal of, institutional uptake of microbiology research (e.g. through the coupling of microbiology research to “the safety case”), and the (re)drawing of disciplinary boundaries (e.g. between microbiology and geology). Drawing on these and related examples, we explore how through projects like MIND, microbes network, and are networked, differently for the joint purpose of radioactive waste disposal.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Van Oudheusden, Michiel ;  Université de Liège > Département de science politique > Anal. et éval. des politiques publ.-Méthod. de sc. politique
Schröder, Jantine
Turcanu, Catrinel
Language :
English
Title :
How microbes network (and are networked) in geological disposal research: a sociological perspective
Publication date :
05 May 2017
Event name :
Project Annual Meeting of the European project MIND (Microbiology in nuclear waste disposal)
Event place :
Prague, Czechia
Event date :
du 2 mai 2017 au 5 mai 2017
By request :
Yes
Audience :
International
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Name of the research project :
MIND - Microbiology In Nuclear waste Disposal
Funders :
CEEA - Euratom - Communauté européenne de l'énergie atomique
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