Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies

Mathilde Bourrier is Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva, where she teaches the sociology of organizations, work and risk. Her work focuses on the social construction of organizational reliability, seeking to understand how it can be achieved, maintained or compromised. She is particularly interested in organizational design and resource allocation in nominal as well as during crisis situations. She has investigated in a wide range of organizations, including civil nuclear power plants, hospitals, police stations and expert teams in epidemic and pandemic management.

• Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies: Burden or Inspiration?.- Unlocking a Socio-technical Trajectory: How Technologies Phase Out and How They Stay Phased Out.- Discontinuation through Enforcement of the Law: Court Rulings as Leverage for Stopping Delegitimised Practices and Technologies.- Safety Culture Lessons Learned in Decommissioning VTT’s FiR-1 Research Reactor.- Decommissioning Management and Leadership for Safety Education: Addressing the Organizational Challenges and the Managerial Complexity of Nuclear Decommissioning Projects.- Ending Horizons: Examining Promises and Interventions to Remove Pesticides in France.- Glory, Mourning, Memory.- Archiving Knowledge, Dismantling Nuclear Power.- Preserving and Valuing Memory for a More Sustainable Future: The Key Role of Archives.- Collecting, Dismantling, Modding, Reusing: Amateur Practices with Discarded Electronics.