Zusammenfassung:
This study analyses the post-nuclear redevelopment trajectories of four European nuclear power plants: Fessenheim (France), Brunsbüttel (Germany), Santa María de Garona (Spain) and Wylfa (United Kingdom). These four plants have all been shut down in the last decade. However, the strategies implemented vary considerably from one site to another.
Using the concept of trajectory, defined as the dynamic evolution of a site or place guided by a desired direction defined by actors, we propose a three-dimensional analysis. The first dimension is functional dependence and focuses on the socio-economic dependency (whether such relationship exists or not) between spaces and nuclear power. The second concerns the modes of governance of the decommissioning and redevelopment processes, including the temporality of the processes. The last dimension focuses on nuclear related cultural and cognitive aspects in the processes.
The results enabled us to identify a typology of redevelopment trajectory: inheritance trajectory with active compensation, adaptation trajectory with partial compensation, and gradual phase-out trajectory. These show that the diversity of trajectories depends on specific spatial, institutional, political and cultural configurations, which influence the capacity of places to innovate or reconfigure. Finally, this analytical framework for comparison and this typology can be applied to sectors other than nuclear power.
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