The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II
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The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II
（Inside technology）
MIT Press, c1998
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Bibliography: p. [413]-445
Includes index
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In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. This text asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance", which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged a combination of technology studies and cultural and political history. Focusing on the early history of French nuclear power, Hecht explores the design and development of the reactors, the culture and organization of work at reactor sites, and the ways in which local communities responded to nuclear power and state-directed technological development. She also describes the eventual abandonment of the French (gas-graphite) system in favour of the American (light-water) system and shows how the American system was then "made French". A central argument of her book is that engineers and workers shaped artifacts and practices in a deliberate effort to implement specific political and cultural programs.
Combining research in previously untapped archival sources along with oral interviews, Hecht demonstrates the relationship between history and memory in technological France.
目次
- Part 1 Introduction: technology, politics, culture and national identity
- conceptual and methodological tools
- research stories and oral histories. Part 2 A technological nation: state engineering before World War II
- state institutions after World War II
- what is a technocrat?
- the future of France
- the mentality of the future
- the plan. Part 3 Technopolitical regimes: the creation of the CEA
- the emergence of a nationalist technopolitical regime
- the G2 reactor - developing a nationalist technopolitical regime
- EDF - the emergence of a nationalized regime
- the EDF1 reactor - developing a nationalized technopolitical regime. Part 4 Technopolitics in the fifth republic: technology and Gaullism
- technopolitics from the fourth to the fifth republic - EDF2 and EDF3
- optimization and the competitive kilowatt-hour
- controlling fuel and pricing plutonium
- industrial competitiveness, exporting reactors and the future of France. Part 5 Technological unions: the politics of unionism
- conceptualizing national technological progress
- recruiting technical elites. Part 6 Regimes of work: Marcoule
- Chinon. Part 7 Technological spectacles: salvation, redemption and liberation
- reconciling modernity and tradition
- chateaux for the 20th century
- the critics - "two steps away is the abyss"
- counter-spectacle - "when the tale of Marcoule is told". Part 8 Atomic vintage: representations of public opinion
- peasants and engineers - Bagnolais de Souche and Marcoulins
- interlude - reflections on local memory
- the little Kuwait of the Indre-et-Loire. Part 9 Warring system: preliminaries to the war - public relations and technological mishaps
- the war starts in earnest - the Horowitz-Cabanius report
- PEON - defining the context for technological development
- breeder reactors - flexibility and consensus
- unions strike back
- Boiteux declares the end of the gas-graphite programme
- the CEA strikes
- economic comparisons, union-style
- back to Bagnols
- the cleanup at Saint-Laurent - healing the technopolitical wound
- the battle fizzles out. Part 10 Conclusion: imagining a technopolitical nation
- technology and politics.
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