The Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London is holding a nuclear history conference online in July 2020. Academics, veterans of Britain’s nuclear programmes and other researchers from around the world will come together for informal discussions of nuclear history.
Steve Papworth and Bridget Kennedy will talk on the theme of the nuclear site at Windscale/Sellafield in Cumbria.
Steve worked at Windscale/Sellafield in the 1980s and will talk about the history of the site and its civil and defence work under British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
Bridget is a lecturer at Newcastle University and PhD student in fine art at Goldsmith’s College where she is working with sculpture to explore and construct new perspectives on the industrial site at Sellafield and its physical and cultural surroundings. She will introduce her work on nuclear culture and the approaches of her colleagues in the Nuclear Culture Research Group at Goldsmith’s.
Photo caption: The skyline at Sellafield today (photo courtesy of Ashley Coates/Creative Commons).
