Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear MomentDuring the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise seems tarnished by accidents, leaks and a lack of public confidence. Mobilising Modernity traces this journey from confidence in technology to the anxieties of the Risk Society questioning a number of conventional wisdoms en route. |
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... Reactor ANC Anti Nuclear Campaign ASW Association of Scientific Workers BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Ltd BWR CANA Boiling Water Reactor Cornish Alliance Against Nuclear Energy CANDU Canadian Duterium Uranium Reactor CEA Central ...
... Reactor SANA Severnside Anti Nuclear Alliance SCRAM Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace SERA Socialist Environmental Resource Association SGHWR SSEB Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor South of Scotland Electricity Board SWP ...
... reactor programme. Both projects represented the pursuit of a particular vision born from shared experiences and common knowledge. Once this vision was declared and the necessary wider recruitment begun neither could control the outcome ...
... reactors in the UK originated in the 1950s. The idea of a universalisable individual, crucial to classical ... Reactor safety provides the clearest example where computer modelling and simulation had to be used to assess safety ...
... reactor operation has to be divided by the number of reactors operating. This might increase the probability to one in a thousand years with the accident being equally probable tomorrow as it is in nine-hundred years time. In short the ...
Contents
The nuclear moment | |
Resisting the juggernaut Opposition in the 1950s | |
Accidents will happen | |
Modernitys mobilization stalls | |
The moment of direct action | |
Networking Direct action and collective refusal | |
Conclusions | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Author index | |