Meanings
- uncountableThe technocrats and technocratic structures involved in the production of nuclear energy.
The critics of French “nucleocracy” are quite clearly the driving force behind the continuing remembrance of Chernobyl.
2013, Karena Kalmbach, “Radiation and Borders: Chernobyl as a National and Transnational Site of Memory”, in Global Environment, volume 11, page 1512 more examples
There is more of this nonsense of nucleocracy. For decades, the Indian nuclear energy establishment has derided and discounted any criticism of the risky working of nearly all its reactors.
1995, “Nucleocracy's nonsense”, in DownToEarthIt is as if the term “nucleocracy” was invented for France: the power of the atom, born from the close interrelationship between the ubiquitous nuclear technology, centralised power structures, and a state-controlled energy economy.
2017, Andreas Rüdinger, Kathrin Glastra, “In Good Company: The German Energy Transition and its Echo in France”, in Green European Journal
Origin
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