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In Pursuit of a Promise - Perspectives on the Political Process to Establish the European Spallation Source (Ess) in Lund, Sweden (Paperback)
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In Pursuit of a Promise - Perspectives on the Political Process to Establish the European Spallation Source (Ess) in Lund, Sweden (Paperback)
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On 28 May 2009, at a closed meeting in Brussels, ministers and
state secretaries of education and science from several EU
countries decided to build the European Spallation Source (ESS) in
Lund, Sweden. Or did they? It is common for big European science
projects to be surrounded by secrecy and political deceit, but the
ESS is extraordinary in its elusiveness. There is a remarkable lack
of concrete economic, political, technical and scientific
underpinnings to the project - but a boasting certainty in the
promises of future paybacks. The ESS is an accelerator-based
neutron spallation facility that will cost billions of Euros to
build and run. It is expected to bring new knowledge in several
fields including materials science, energy research, and the life
sciences. But its financing is not yet certain, and future returns
hard to predict. How then could the decision to build ESS occur?
Why was there so little organized resistance? This book places the
ESS project in its political and scientific context. It links the
decisions taken to the history of Big Science in Europe and in
Sweden. It looks at the dynamic political processes of establishing
this megaproject in a small town in the south of Sweden. The eight
chapters start from a paradoxical state of affairs: The ESS is not
funded, and not formally decided in any binding agreements - yet it
is treated as a future reality, locally and nationally, loaded with
promises of scientific, economic and social returns. The book makes
a much-needed first contribution to the analysis of the ESS project
and its political, environmental, and social ramifications. It
should be read by scholars of science and technology studies,
politicians and the interested general public.
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