From Energy Dreams to Nuclear Nightmares: Lessons from the Anti-nuclear Power Movement in the 1970sThis book challenges the existing histories and explanations for the growth of the anti-nuclear power movement in the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1979. Arguing that opposition to nuclear power emerged in the 1970s because of the concerns of a minority of people about the dangers of atomic energy, based on the ecological messages contained in bestselling science fiction novels from the late 1940s to mid 1960s. Showing how a minority of the 1960s underground press blended old conservation ideas with counterculture styles to create new radical groups such as Friends of the Earth, this analysis also seeks to answer questions such as Why an anti-nuclear power movement instead of an anti-coal or anti-asbestos movement? What was it about nuclear power that generated such opposition its environmental impact, its cost, its prospects or its symbolism? and Could wind power in the 21st century face the same forces that opposed nuclear power 30 years ago? " |
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... campaign his chapter looks at the anti - nuclear campaign waged by Alf Robens and TH at Fritz Schumacher at the National Coal Board in the 1960s . The appointment of Alf Robens as chairman of the National Coal Board ( NCB ) in 1960 ...
... campaign his chapter looks at the anti - nuclear campaign waged by Alf Robens and TH at Fritz Schumacher at the National Coal Board in the 1960s . The appointment of Alf Robens as chairman of the National Coal Board ( NCB ) in 1960 ...
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... campaign Commenting on local groups , Tom Burke said that there ' was no groundswell from the grass roots ' for an anti - nuclear campaign in 1975 unlike that for whales and transport where they led . They did not know about nuclear ...
... campaign Commenting on local groups , Tom Burke said that there ' was no groundswell from the grass roots ' for an anti - nuclear campaign in 1975 unlike that for whales and transport where they led . They did not know about nuclear ...
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... campaign was to be seen by the environmental and main- stream press ( and future historians ) as an FoE campaign . Activists ' criticism of FOE London FoE's handling of this rally was criticized by some local branches , which typified ...
... campaign was to be seen by the environmental and main- stream press ( and future historians ) as an FoE campaign . Activists ' criticism of FOE London FoE's handling of this rally was criticized by some local branches , which typified ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The saga of reprocessing | 10 |
Twentieth century nuclear visions | 13 |
Copyright | |
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