Various Graphic Work:

What if local communities informed public policy?

Nuclear Dialogues was developed by Zoe Papadopoulou, who hosted a radioactive tea party in collaboration with scientists from the Nuclear First Doctoral Training Centre. Participation was encouraged through a tasting of ‘yellowcake’ - a colloquialism for uranium oxide U3O8, an essential ingredient in the preparation of uranium fuel for nuclear reactors.

The inviting setting of a tea party allows for engaging discussion about the technology and its by-products, predominantly excess heat and hot water. Rather than imposing solutions, the discussion encourages suggestions as to how by-products can benefit communities living in close proximity to the reactors.

With 10 proposed nuclear sites to be developed in the UK within the next ten years, my involvement in the project was to create ten placemats; each a hand-illustrated map of a specific site, and plates; each depicting a potential use for the by-products of a nuclear power plant.

The project was created for the Impact! exhibition, and is currently on display in the windows at the Wellcome Trust Foundation.