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Nuclear Fascism: A French Analyses (1979)

Auteur	Andre Gorz, Radical Am)
Datum	mei 1979
Classificatie	6.02.5.00/08 (ATOOMSTAAT - ALGEMEEN)
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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION
The article by Andre Gorz in this issue of RA was originally written over four years
ago, but it anticipates most of the pressing problems of nuclear energy which have
been raised by the accident at Three Mile Island. The dangers, he reminds us, are not
only those of accidents and disposal of radioactive waste - as real as those are – but
also the kind of social and political developments called for by the growth of nuclear
power. As he wrote then, the choices about nuclear energy are ''political in the
deepest sense of the word.''
The political nature of these choices is revealed by the attempts of supposedly
independent and apolitical scientists and technicians to drum up support for nuclear
energy. With all the contortions that the experts go through in trying to convince the
public of the safety of nuclear energy, their arguments are finally couched in the
political-economic contexts of OPEC control of foreign oil, fear of inflation, a new-
found and deeply cynical concern for the lives of coal miners, etc. The evaluation
of the relative safety of nukes is a consequence of the kind of society these
professionals think is possible and preferable.

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