Article ID: CBB000079343

Enacting cultural identity: Risk and ritual in the French nuclear workplace (1997)

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Description On the clean-up operation following a 1969 accident in a French nuclear reactor. “This article argues that the technological and cultural aspects of the operation were inseparable: in cleaning and repairing the reactor, nuclear workers healed the harm that the events of October 1969 had inflicted on their self-image, cemented their loyalty toward each other and toward the gas-graphite programme, and affirmed and redefined their role in the story of French technological grandeur.”


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Authors & Contributors
Hecht, Gabrielle
Adamson, Matthew
Kojima, Chieko
Kalmbach, Karena
Valerie Arnhold
Anna Konieczna
Journals
Cold War History
French Historical Studies
Technology and Culture
Social Studies of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
MIT Press
Harvard University Press
Berghahn Books
Association pour l'Histoire de l'Electricité en France
Indiana University
University of Pennsylvania
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Uranium
Technology and government
Nuclear power stations
International cooperation
International relations
People
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
France
Great Britain
United States
South Africa
India
Institutions
France. Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
Électricité de France
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