Project description
Overcoming nuclear fuel supply concerns in Europe
Nuclear power has experienced a political resurgence in recent years, driven by its potential to help meet green energy goals and reduce pollution. However, the growing demand for nuclear fuel and the differing strategies adopted by EU Member States for securing supplies have complicated efforts to establish common approaches. The ERC-funded GeoNuFE project aims to enhance collaboration among EU Member States by advancing theoretical insights into the interplay between policies, existing supply security frameworks, political geography and decarbonisation strategies. The project will develop an analytical framework that integrates critical geopolitics, critical security studies, and new materialist perspectives, providing a comprehensive understanding of these complex dynamics.
Objective
How do countries build their nuclear fuels supply policies? The ongoing political renaissance of nuclear power through the world raises concerns about European Union states ability to fill their needs. Despite efforts to build a common strategy, EU members follow diverging paths to secure their supplies. However, energy security studies are so far unable to explain this heterogeneity, creating miscomprehensions between countries and ill-informing energy policies. First, we lack any empirically informed works on the geopolitics of nuclear power. Second, all theoretical frameworks studying supply security were built over hydrocarbons. But if we want to decarbonize our societies, we will first have to decolonize these tools from the grip of fossil fuels. Third, while critical security studies have called for more space-sensitive approaches, engagement with political geography theories remains limited. GeoNuFE aims at filling these gaps by questioning the variables behind the spatial heterogeneity of nuclear fuel supply strategies. To do so, I develop an innovative analytical framework bridging critical security studies and critical geopolitics through their ongoing turn to new materialist approach and assemblage. GeoNuFE will compare four countries: France, Finland, the UK, and Hungary, following three steps. [1] Ill confront the current fossil-fuel informed theories to actors of the nuclear sector to build the first ever analytical framework of objective supply security adapted to it, and apply it to the four countries. [2] Ill identify the influence of EU membership by digging into how the Euratom Supply Agency, who is responsible for allowing supply contracts to member states, produces and performs security. [3] I will trace and compare the geopolitical assemblage which explains the supply strategies in each country. Expected results will provide essential knowledge of the geopolitical dimensions of energy transitions to better inform EU energy policies.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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68093 Mulhouse
France
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