Contents List of Figures List of Tables Introducing the Nuclear-Water Nexus Per Högselius Part I: Envirotechnical Entanglements: Problems and Conflicts around Nuclear Cooling 1 The Sisyphean Risk: Governing Corrosion in Nuclear Power Plants Siegfried Evens 2 Water: The Limiting Factor for Nuclear Power Generation in Spain? Diego Sesma-Martín and Mar Rubio-Varas 3 "Atomi in risaia": Conflicts over Water Resources in the Italian Nuclear Program Elisabetta Bini 4 Water, Fish, and Contamination in Chernobyl's Cooling Pond Achim Klüppelberg 5 Lake Stechlin: A Thermal Sink for East Germany's First Atomic Power Plant Thomas Turnbull and Maximilian P. Lau 6 The Nuclear-Water Nexus and the Origins of European Environmental Policy: Thermal Pollution as a Transnational Problem Jan-Henrik Meyer 7 The Unsustainability of India's Nuclear Energy Policy: Resisting the Gorakhpur Nuclear Project Sonali Huria 8 Exploring the Nuclear-Water Nexus in India's Adivasi Heartland: Nuclear After-Lives of the Narmada River Protests Kumar Sundaram Part II: Reactors on the Beach: Exploring the Atomic Coasts 9 A Nuclear Power Plant in the Loire Estuary: Navigating the Politics of Siting Anaël Marrec 10 The Mark of Water on Spain's Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant Carlos Gonzalvo Salas 11 SONGS of the Southland: The Nuclear-Water Nexus in Southern California Heather Williams and Joanna L. Dyl 12 Soviet Envirotechnical Landscapes and Crimea's Contested Nuclearization Roman Khandozhko 13 Dreams of Abundance: America's Cold War Vision of Nuclear Desalination Elizabeth Hameeteman 14 Reviving Nuclear Desalination? Challenges and Prospects in the Arab Gulf States S. Duygu Sever Part III: Water's Malicious Agency: The Threat of Wet Radioactive Pollution 15 The Waters of Project Plowshare: Hydraulic Engineering and Fracking with Nuclear Explosives Victor McFarland 16 Swamped: Flooding and Fibbing at the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment Peter Burt 17 Below the Surface: Groundwater in Idaho's Nuclear History Sarah E. Robey 18 The SDAG Wismut: The Nuclear-Water Nexus in Uranium Ore Mining and Milling Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch 19 Archeologies of Toxicity: The St Hélène River Liquid Archive Agnès Villette 20 Compounding Catastrophes in Polissya: Chornobyl's Legacy Along the E40 Waterway Jonathon Turnbull and Kate Brown Contributors Notes Index.