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Ep. #072 - Alexei Yurchak
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.To help us sort through a week dominated by spiraling Russo-American political intrigue, we welcome (13:01) to the podcast Berkeley anthropologist, Alexei Yurchak, analyst extraordinaire of all things late Soviet and post Soviet, and author of the award-winning Everything was Forever Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton, 2005). We trace the connections between that project’s exploration of culture and politics at the end of state socialism and Alexei’s current research on the scientists who have been working to preserve Lenin’s body since 1924. We talk about the fascinating intersection of biopolitics and necropolitics involved in the effort to maintain Lenin’s body in a lifelike state for almost a century, how discursive hegemony of form in the late Soviet period also informed corporeal hegemony of form, the results of this science that you can find in your own pharmacy, and the network of political leaders’ bodies across the world that Soviet and now Russian scientists have worked to preserve. Alexei dispels the idea that cloning was ever on the table in this project; but explains that his interlocutors do believe that they can now keep Lenin’s body in a near-life state in perpetuity. We return from there to the contemporary political chaos and what Alexei makes of the Trump-Putin entanglement stories currently dominating the headlines. Alexei shares his concerns about the powerful return of Russophobia to the United States, about what popular characterizations of Russia get wrong, and about how anti-Russian sentiment may provide a convenient excuse to defer a serious examination of the root causes of Trumpism. Ready to take a break from the political hysteria? Then listen on
Severe accident research in NUGENIA: the SARNET network
No full textSARNET (Severe Accident Research Network) was set up under the aegis of the Framework Programmes of the European Commission from 2004 to 2013 and coordinated by IRSN to perform R&D on severe accidents in water-cooled nuclear power plants
Status of the TA2/SARNET R&D activities
No full textThe Technical Area N°2 “Severe accidents / SARNET” continues to be very active since severe accidents in Gen.II-III-III+ nuclear power plants are still a major R&D subject in a post-Fukushima accidents context. Six technical general issues are addressed: in-vessel corium/debris coolability, ex-vessel corium interactions and coolability, containment behaviour including hydrogen risk, source term released to the environment, impact of severe accidents on the environment and emergency management, and severe accident scenarios.
The presentation will summarize the current activities of diverse types:
- Periodic technical workshops: one on corium behaviour will take place mid-April during 1 week,
- ERMSAR international conferences every 2 years: the last one in April 2017, hosted by NCBJ in Warsaw (Poland) was a big success and the next one in March 2019 will be hosted by UJV in Prague (Czech Republic),
- Education and training courses on SA phenomenology and management: the last one, hosted by JSI in Ljubljana (Slovenia), was a success with 60 participants, and a course is under preparation in China,
- Periodic ranking of R&D priorities by the SARP group composed of experts from 16 organizations, the last exercise at end of 2017 being used as basis for the current update of the NUGENIA roadmap.
In addition several R&D “in-kind” projects were launched without external funding, thus based on partners’ own resources and competencies. They will be shortly described: CORE-SOAR on the update of the state-of-the art on core degradation, QUESA on code interpretation of air ingress experiments from SAFEST FP7 project, IPRESCA on pool scrubbing process of retention of fission products, and recently ASCOM on mutualisation of R&D on the ASTEC IRSN integral code.
Maintaining all these activities at their current level in the future is essential for sharing the knowledge, maintaining the competencies, training new researchers in the domain, and improving the severe accident management guidelines
Severe accident research in Europe: SARNET network from Euratom to NUGENIA
No full textSARNET (Severe Accident Research Network) has been set up under the aegis of the Framework Programmes of the European Commission from 2004 to 2013 and under the IRSN coordination to perform R&D on severe accidents in water-cooled nuclear power plants. The network self-sustainability was achieved through integration mid-2013 in the NUGENIA European association devoted to R&D on fission technology of Generation II and III. The SARNET activities continue in the Technical Area “Severe accidents” through technical workshops, ranking of R&D priorities, improvements of severe accident codes, ERMSAR international conferences, and education and training courses.
Six technical domains are addressed in this Technical Area: in-vessel corium/debris coolability, ex-vessel corium interactions and coolability, containment behaviour, including hydrogen risk, source term released to the environment, impact of severe accidents on the environment and emergency management, and severe accident scenarios.
The ranking of research priorities in the NUGENIA R&D roadmap that was published in 2015 underlined the need to focus efforts in the next years on the improvement of prevention of severe accidents and on the mitigation of their consequences, as highlighted by the Fukushima Dai-ichi accidents. Several current or soon starting projects on mitigation of severe accident consequences in Euratom or NUGENIA frame are shortly described in this paper
The First Name Alexei: a Motif in The Brothers Karamazov
No full textРассматривается проблема обоснования гипотезы автобиографической мотивировки имени Алексея Карамазова на уровне поэтики романа «Братья Карамазовы». Доказывается, что память о младшем сыне Достоевского в значительной степени определяет топику и ряд значимых мотивов романа, одним из которых является само имя «Алексей».The article studies the problem of the hypothesis foundation of the autobiographic motivation for Alexei Karamazov's name with reference to the poetics of the novel The Brothers Karamazov. The author argues that Dostoyevsky's memories of his younger son determine the topic and a number of the novel's most significant motifs to a considerable extent, one of the motifs being the name Alexei proper
Alexei Miller, The Romanov Empire and Nationalism
No full textA new imperial history of the Russian Empire hardly breaks new ground — reprints of older publications show that this paradigm shift is well established by now. However, Alexei Miller’s anthology demonstrates that this approach can still pose stimulating questions and provide complex and unexpected answers. The book presents more than a welcomed English collection of Miller’s main publications: some of the contributions are new, some have undergone “significant changes,” as the author puts it..
Alexei Miller, The Romanov Empire and Nationalism
No full textA new imperial history of the Russian Empire hardly breaks new ground — reprints of older publications show that this paradigm shift is well established by now. However, Alexei Miller’s anthology demonstrates that this approach can still pose stimulating questions and provide complex and unexpected answers. The book presents more than a welcomed English collection of Miller’s main publications: some of the contributions are new, some have undergone “significant changes,” as the author puts it..
Color Figures for: SPACE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST IN USA article
No full textColor figures for article in Conference Proceedings of XX annual conference on solar and solar-terrestrial physics held at the Main (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory, 10-14 Oct. 2016, Author: A.A. Pevtso
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