nucleocracyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

nucleocracy (uncountable)

1. 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, “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.