Lecture: The Birth of Nuclear Power in the Manhattan Project: CP-1 and Hanford

Robert Jacobs Announcement
Location
Japan
Subject Fields
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, World History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, American History / Studies, Japanese History / Studies

Nuclear power plants were invented to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. This talk will look at the origins of nuclear power in the Manhattan Project. It will look at the first sustained chain-reaction at CP-1, and then the construction and operation of the first nuclear power plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, which were all built for nuclear weapon manufacturing.

Robert (Bo) Jacobs is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation technopolitics who's current work focuses on a global cross-cultural study of radiation-affected communities. His most recent book is, Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear humanities in the post-Cold War (Routledge, 2018). 

This lecture is the first of four lectures in the annual series of Hiroshima Peace Institute Public Lectures in English offered at the Satellite Campus of the Hiroshima City University in Hiroshima, Japan. The subsequent three lectures can be viewed at the weblink in this posting. 

 

Venue: 

Seminar Room, Satellite Campus, Hiroshima City University, 9F Otemachi Heiwa Building, 4-1-1 Otemachi, Nakaku, Hiroshima

Please RSVP to: office-peace@m.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp

Contact Information

Professor Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University

Contact Email
jacobs@hiroshima-cu.ac.jp