Promise and threat:living with nuclear in the Finnish context

• Main Author: Strauss-Mazzullo, Hannah
• Other Authors: Tennberg, Monica, Lempinen, Hanna, Pirnes, Susanna
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2020
• Subjects: nuclear power; local communities; Energy megaprojects; happiness; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/1; name=Sociology; Fukushima; Greenfield; Arctic; Northern Finland
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/f767ba97-f0fb-4aa3-97b9-27483ebce004; https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429057366

The decision to build a new nuclear power plant on a greenfield site in Pyhäjoki, Northern Finland, is so far unprecedented in Western societies. It comes after Fukushima, after other European countries’ wish to phase out nuclear power and after Finland has started building a final repository for sp...