Despite the rhetoric of containment, nuclear power plants (like other forms of energy production) establish an osmotic relationship with the surrounding environment, broadly defined. In fact, nuclear power plants could be understood as socio-enviro-technical systems.
One cannot understand how nuclear facilities operate without considering the environmental and social features of nuclear sites. To account for the socioecological transformations involved in the installation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, NUCLEARDECOM proposes to adopt the concepts of emplacement and displacement.