Atomic Routes and Cultures for a New Narrative on Franco’s Regime

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Ana Romero de Pablos
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A decision by two Spanish companies to start producing nuclear-based electrical energy was the beginning of a journey that led two Spanish engineers to the United States and Canada in 1957. They wanted to learn about the reactor technology that North American companies were developing, contact specialized consultants to explore possible consultancy services, and search out political, economic, and financial support to make their project viable. The trip’s travel log suggests that the route they set off on was decisive in convincing the dictatorship’s political, industrial, and economic powers of the importance of nuclear energy; this journey had a direct influence on subsequent construction of Spanish nuclear facilities and on the policies designed to manage it. In this article I suggest exploring this journey and its record to reflect on how nuclear energy participated in building a new narrative on the Franco regime, one that showed Spain as a modern, internationally-connected State capable of incorporating the latest atomic technologies.
弗朗哥政权新叙事的原子路线与文化
1957年,两家西班牙公司决定开始生产核能,这是两名西班牙工程师前往美国和加拿大的旅程的开始。他们想了解北美公司正在开发的反应堆技术,联系专业顾问探索可能的咨询服务,并寻求政治、经济和财政支持,使他们的项目可行。这次旅行的旅行日志表明,他们出发的路线在说服独裁政权的政治、工业和经济大国相信核能的重要性方面具有决定性意义;这段旅程对随后西班牙核设施的建设以及管理核设施的政策产生了直接影响。在这篇文章中,我建议探索这段旅程及其记录,以反思核能是如何参与建立一个关于佛朗哥政权的新叙事的,该叙事将西班牙展示为一个现代的、,有国际联系的国家,能够采用最新的原子技术。
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期刊介绍: Culture & History Digital Journal features original scientific articles and review articles, aimed to contribute to the methodological debate among historians and other scholars specialized in the fields of Human and Social Sciences, at an international level. Using an interdisciplinary and transversal approach, this Journal poses a renovation of the studies on the past, relating them and dialoguing with the present, breaking the traditional forms of thinking based on chronology, diachronic analysis, and the classical facts and forms of thinking based exclusively on textual and documental analysis. By doing so, this Journal aims to promote not only new subjects of History, but also new forms of addressing its knowledge.
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