Article ID: CBB512739309

Normalisation of nuclear accidents after the Cold War (2021)

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Valerie Arnhold (Author)


Cold War History
Volume: 21
Issue: 3
Pages: 261-281


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Special Issue on Nuclear History
Language: English

This article investigates the history of governing nuclear accidents in France and internationally. While nuclear disasters posed serious threats to nuclear energy during the Cold War, they have been increasingly perceived as intrinsic and ‘manageable’ events of nuclear operations, a process that can be described as ‘the normalisation of accidents’. This article shows how the end of the Cold War facilitated normalisation, through an internationally shared approach to nuclear safety, based on regulatory organisations, which contributed to displacing the political controversy related to nuclear energy in France and Europe.

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Article Benoît Pelopidas; Sébastien Philippe (2021) Unfit for purpose: Reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974). Cold War History (pp. 243-260). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Maxime Polleri
Sam Hind
Hilary Brown
Vincent Ialenti
Natasha Zaretsky
Plokhy, Serhii
Concepts
Accidents
Nuclear power stations
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Technology and politics
Technology
Safety
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Japan
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Ukraine
Fukushima-ken
Institutions
United States. Department of Energy
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