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Recording available below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the small town of T\u00f4wa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, about 50 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, residents stayed in their home after a disaster in March 2011 substantially altered the composition of their environment. A magnitude 9 earthquake off the coast of Tohoku triggered a tsunami that left more than 18,000 people dead and missing, and led to a level 7 nuclear accident. The radioactive plume escaping from the damaged reactors spread to more than 100 km, creating random pockets of contamination on the territory. Riddled with these &#8220;leopard spots&#8221;, the T\u00f4wa Valley was not considered sufficiently contaminated, however, for an evacuation of the population to be considered. Since then, they have learned to live with radioactivity, measuring but also observing its behaviour, the way it moves, where it tends to concentrate, what it tends to cohabit with, what it tends to attach to. In this presentation, I will focus on what is articulated in the empirical frequentation of a place like T\u00f4wa by farmers, agronomists, or social scientists. I will try to describe how knowledge of what is happening in a radioactive regime can only be produced by the <em>intimacysation<\/em>, so to speak, of the links that unite people to contaminated places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the recording<\/strong><\/p>\n[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2PpuViztiIo&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This seminar is part of the\u00a0<strong>Making the unknown knowable\u00a0<\/strong>seminar series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/thebeam\/2021\/04\/20\/seminar-series-making-the-unknown-knowable\/\">Click here to read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Sophie Houdart, Laboratoire d\u2019Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre\/CNRS 29 April 2021. Recording available below. Abstract In the small town of T\u00f4wa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, about 50 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, residents stayed in their home after a disaster in March 2011 substantially altered the composition of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":1147,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1150","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Making the unknown knowable: Knowing by Being Intimate - The Beam nuclear and social research network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sites.se.manchester.ac.uk\/thebeam\/making-the-unknown-knowable-knowing-by-being-intimate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making the unknown knowable: Knowing by Being Intimate - The Beam nuclear and social research network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prof Sophie Houdart, Laboratoire d\u2019Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre\/CNRS 29 April 2021. 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