nucleocrat
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nucleocrat (plural nucleocrats)
- (usually derogatory) An expert in nuclear energy.
- 2008, Pierre Baby, Frederic Varone, “Europeanization of the French electricity policy: four paradoxes”, in Emiliano Grossman, editor, France and the European Union: After the Referendum on the European Constitution[1], Routledge:
- For instance, Jean Syrota, a French 'nucleocrat' and the head of the DIGEC ('Direction generale du gaz, de l'électricité et du charbon' within the ministry), and the CEO of COGEMA, a nuclear waste recycling company (Van de Hoven and Froschauer 2004: 1094), was named president of the newly instuted CRE.
- 2014, Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science[2], Abrams, page 355:
- Because even at the maximum level of nucleocrat ambitions, the effects on the climate are of marginal concern.
- 2016, Wladimir Tchertkoff, The Crime of Chernobyl: The Nuclear Gulag[3], Glagoslav:
- Although the people I was talking to assured me that Mr Lochard was not a nucleocrat and that he did useful work with the inhabitants of the contaminated territories, my curiosity was pîqued.
- 2022, “A Small Spark Against Enedis”, in Earth First![4]:
- A thought for our companions in jail, among them Alfredo, an Italian anarchist who shot a nucleocrat.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Karena Kalmbach (2013) “Radiation and Borders: Chernobyl as a National and Transnational Site of Memory”, in Global Environment[5], volume 11, page 140 n. 21.