Center for Advanced Study MillerComm2023: "Atomic Heritage, Secrecy, and Failure: The Huemul Atomic Project in Argentina," Trinidad Rico Director of Heritage Conservation, School of Architecture, University of Southern California
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- CAS Miller Comm/Department of Physics
- Location
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory, Urbana
- Date
- Mar 21, 2023 4:00 pm
- Views
- 59
- Originating Calendar
- A+D Student events
In the 1950s, Argentina spent considerable resources to join the nuclear era, recruiting a German scientist to deliver nuclear fusion in a secret lab on the remote island Huemul. It was dismantled a few years later. This lecture discusses the aftermath of a failed experiment, its legacies for a nuclear culture in Argentina, and the challenge of preserving nuclear heritage.
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