nucleocracy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nucleocracy (uncountable)
- The technocrats and technocratic structures involved in the production of nuclear energy.
- 1995, “Nucleocracy's nonsense”, in DownToEarth[1]:
- 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.
- 2013, Karena Kalmbach, “Radiation and Borders: Chernobyl as a National and Transnational Site of Memory”, in Global Environment[2], volume 11, page 151:
- The critics of French “nucleocracy” are quite clearly the driving force behind the continuing remembrance of Chernobyl.
- 2017, Andreas Rüdinger, Kathrin Glastra, “In Good Company: The German Energy Transition and its Echo in France”, in Green European Journal[3]:
- It 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.