Historia de la evolución técnica de los reactores nucleares de agua a presión

  1. FERNÁNDEZ ARIAS, Pablo 1
  2. CUEVAS, Ana 2
  3. VERGARA, Diego 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

  2. 2 Universidad Católica Santa Teresa de Jesús de Ávila
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    Universidad Católica Santa Teresa de Jesús de Ávila

    Ávila, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05wa62164

Journal:
Artefactos

ISSN: 1989-3612

Year of publication: 2013

Issue: 6

Pages: 109-138

Type: Article

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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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