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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">SaNDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">SaNDD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Saf. Nucl. Waste Disposal Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2943-3924</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/sand-2026-1</article-id>
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<article-title>Adivasi and the Atom: Exploring the transculturality of uranium mining in India</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pathak</surname>
<given-names>Kumar Sundaram</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huria</surname>
<given-names>Sonali</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4044-7344</ext-link>
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<addr-line>Concordia University, Department of Communication Studies, Montreal (Quebec), Canada</addr-line>
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<addr-line>KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Stockholm, Sweden</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>02</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>26</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Kumar Sundaram Pathak</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Boundaries of the mundane and the exceptional, sacred and profane, and natural and cultural, become blurred in Jadugoda, a small mining town in eastern India inhabited by indigenous Adivasi communities and their non-human kin. The radioactive waste and contamination that have configured life and its meanings around the country&amp;rsquo;s oldest uranium mines, and the multi-scalar violences and ruptures unleashed in the process, offer the narrative fabric for ruminations by the Adivasi woman writer, Mahua Maji. Through an eco-critical engagement with Maji&amp;rsquo;s semi-fictional novel, &lt;em&gt;Marang Goda Neelkanth Hua&lt;/em&gt; (lit. &lt;em&gt;Marang Goda&lt;/em&gt; turns blue-throated) we explore the forms of nuclearity that emerge along the variously entangled institutional, material, and socio-cultural lives of uranium extraction. In this paper, we triangulate the scholarly conversations around the nuclear mundane, the eco-critical affordances of Maji&amp;rsquo;s novel, and secondary empirical studies. In doing so, we deploy &lt;em&gt;transculturality&lt;/em&gt; as a post-colonial, indigenous, and eco-critical conceptual device, in conjunction with the emerging post-human frameworks in the Nuclear Humanities that attend to multi-scalar entanglements, hybrid existences of naturecultures, and situated negotiations of nuclearity.</p>
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