History of the technical evolution of pressurized water nuclear reactors
Abstract
The complex technical system forming a nuclear reactor is an interesting case from the perspective of Studies Science, Technology and Society. Among the different variants that were designed along the history, the most implemented variant has been the pressurized water reactor (pwr). To undertake the study of its technical evolution, an evolutionary perspective approach is developed within the History and Sociology of Technology: (i) the technological determinism, to study the autonomous evolution of technology in its development stage (in the fifties); (ii) the social constructivism, to study the later stage of social influence (in the seventies); and (iii) the systems approach, in a stage of transition between the two previous stages, to analyze political and economic factors, as well as to open the black box of pwr design.
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Bijker, W.; Hughes, T. P. y Pinch, T. (1987): The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Society and History of Technology, Cambridge, mit Press.
Cornejo, M. (2011): «El suministro energético renovable 2.0: la revolución imperativa», Revista ArtefaCToS, 4, 1, pp. 53-65.
Glasstone, S. y Sesonske, A. (1994): Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor Systems Engineering Volume Two, Dordrecht, Springer-Science+Business Media.
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Hughes, T. P. (1983): Networks of Power, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
iaea (1968): «Power Reactor of the World», IAEA Bulletin, 11.
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Olson, G. L.; Mccardell, R. K. e Illum, D. B. (2002): Fuel Summary Report: Shippingport Light Water Breeder Reactor, Idaho, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Bechtel.
Pope, J. T.; Curran, T. R.; Ermec, J. J.; Schaffer, S. G.; Zwiep, D. N.; Jcurran, J. J. y Tailor, J. J. (1980): «Shippingport Atomic Power Station», National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.
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Fernández Arias, P., Cuevas, A., & Vergara, D. (2016). History of the technical evolution of pressurized water nuclear reactors. Artefactos. Philosophical Studies on Science and Technology, 6, 109–138. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/cinco/index.php/artefactos/article/view/15589
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