Published July 1987
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Journal article
Chernobyl or Hiroshima?
Description
The so called peaceful use of atomic power is an ideology specifically apt for appeasement in an illusionary way: although everyone could know about the desastrous effects of radioactivity since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the civil use of atomic power serves to demonstrate, that the incompatibility of radionuclides with health and life could be controlled and mastered. In this context the civil use of atomic power appears as an instrument of social control. (orig.)
Abstract (German)
Die Ideologie des sogenannten friedlichen Atomwirtschaftens soll auf illusionaere Weise beruhigen - als koenne die Unvertraeglichkeit der Radioaktivitaet mit unserem Leben kontrolliert und beherrscht werden. Damit erweist es sich ueber seinen fragwuerdigen energiepolitischen Wert hinaus als Instrument sozialer Kontrolle. (orig.)Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Tschernobyl oder Hiroshima?
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Psyche
- Journal Volume
- 41
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Series
- Psyche.
- Journal Page Range
- 596-603
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 22017111
- Subject category
- S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BEHAVIOR; ETHICAL ASPECTS; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POLITICAL ASPECTS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIOLOGY
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENERGY; EUROPE