Ukraine as a Nuclear State: Considerations on an Emerging Identity

Anna Veronika Wendland spricht zum Thema "Ukraine as a Nuclear State: Considerations on an Emerging Identity" im Workshop "40 Years After the Chernobyl Accident: A Nuclear Renaissance?" an der TU Berlin, 21. Mai 2026, im Rahmen der AT-OM Research Days „Technology, Economics, and Geopolitics of Nuclear Power“

Panel I.

The 40th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident (Room H 2035)
Chair: Karena Kalmbach (Futurium Berlin)

• Tetiana Kasperski (Södertörn University Stockholm): Nuclear Accidents as Radioactive Waste: The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
• Per Högselius (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm): Chernobyl, the RBMK technology, and the quest for a nuclear renaissance
• Tetiana Perga (TU Berlin): Environmental consequences of the Chernobyl accident

Panel II

Current Socio-Technical Issues in Nuclear Power (Room H 2035)
Chair: Karena Kalmbach (Futurium Berlin)

• Anna Veronika Wendland (Herder-Institut, Marburg): Ukraine as a Nuclear State: Considerations on an Emerging Identity
• Markku Lehtonen (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Constructing Technoscientific Promises: The Diverse Trajectories of Small Modular (Nuclear)Reactors in Canada, Finland, France, and the UK
• Christian von Hirschhausen (TU Berlin & DIW Berlin) & Gero Scheck (TU Berlin): An Outline for a Global History of Plutonium Reactors