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“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).

At the start of the British nuclear programmes, most technological choices were made away from public scrutiny and behind closed doors. Early nuclear decision making was backed by the rationale that British citizens lacked technical and specialised knowledge to make informed decisions on nuclear que...

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Autor principal:	Carvalho, Lucie de
Format:	Article ou chapitre numérique
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Publicat:	Revue française de civilisation britannique 2018
Matèries:	télévision risques environnementaux objets culturels médias énergie nucléaire television environmental risks cultural objects media nuclear power
Accés en línia:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:rfcb_2425 https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.2425 urn:doi:10.4000/rfcb.2425 en https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/2425 2018-12-07T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/k18i https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ “Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982). Revue française de civilisation britannique CRECIB - Centre de recherche et d'études en civilisation britannique info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4373 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0248-9015 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb Carvalho, Lucie de télévision risques environnementaux objets culturels médias énergie nucléaire television environmental risks cultural objects media nuclear power At the start of the British nuclear programmes, most technological choices were made away from public scrutiny and behind closed doors. Early nuclear decision making was backed by the rationale that British citizens lacked technical and specialised knowledge to make informed decisions on nuclear questions. The emergence of public debates on nuclear risks was thus greatly hindered by limited public communication. However, this technocratic decision-making model came under fire in the wake of the 1957 Windscale accident and the rise of environmental opposition throughout the 1960s. The environmental risks of contamination, pollution, and radiation became a source of heightened tension between industry and anti-nuclear activists. This paper aims at exploring the impact of the rise in public environmental anxiety on state-sponsored television footage released between the late 1950s and the early 1980s. Analysing television footage helps identify the institutional communication strategies used to negotiate the British public’s understanding and acceptance of nuclear-induced environmental risks between 1956 and 1982. This analysis suggests that the industry’s communication approach was only cosmetically altered by this changing context. It contends that, if these cultural productions participated in constructing a more nuanced depiction of nuclear risks, they nonetheless remained based on the idea that citizen opposition mostly reflected deficiencies in scientific literacy. Les premiers programmes nucléaires britanniques se sont caractérisés par un modèle de confinement de l’information et d’absence de droit de regard citoyen, légitimé par l’existence d’un supposé déficit de connaissances des citoyens. Toutefois, l’accident de Windscale de 1957 et la montée en puissance des mouvements environnementaux au cours des années 1960 portent un coup sévère à ce processus décisionnel technocratique. La question des risques de contamination, de pollution et de radiation induits par les activités nucléaires se place alors au cœur des confrontations entre l’industrie nucléaire et les groupes environnementaux. Cet article analyse l’impact de la montée des préoccupations environnementales sur les stratégies de communication institutionnelle autour des activités électronucléaires britanniques, telles qu’elles émergent à travers les productions télévisées de l’époque (1956-1982). Cette étude s’attache à identifier et interpréter les mécanismes de communication visuelle mis en place afin de restaurer la confiance du public autour des risques nucléaires environnementaux. L’analyse des mécanismes de communication mobilisés par ces productions culturelles fait alors émerger une image certes plus nuancée des risques nucléaires, mais celle-ci demeure profondément ancrée dans une vision technocratique du public britannique, dont les préoccupations seraient finalement toujours le fruit d’un déficit informationnel.
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spellingShingle	télévision risques environnementaux objets culturels médias énergie nucléaire television environmental risks cultural objects media nuclear power Carvalho, Lucie de “Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).
description	At the start of the British nuclear programmes, most technological choices were made away from public scrutiny and behind closed doors. Early nuclear decision making was backed by the rationale that British citizens lacked technical and specialised knowledge to make informed decisions on nuclear questions. The emergence of public debates on nuclear risks was thus greatly hindered by limited public communication. However, this technocratic decision-making model came under fire in the wake of the 1957 Windscale accident and the rise of environmental opposition throughout the 1960s. The environmental risks of contamination, pollution, and radiation became a source of heightened tension between industry and anti-nuclear activists. This paper aims at exploring the impact of the rise in public environmental anxiety on state-sponsored television footage released between the late 1950s and the early 1980s. Analysing television footage helps identify the institutional communication strategies used to negotiate the British public’s understanding and acceptance of nuclear-induced environmental risks between 1956 and 1982. This analysis suggests that the industry’s communication approach was only cosmetically altered by this changing context. It contends that, if these cultural productions participated in constructing a more nuanced depiction of nuclear risks, they nonetheless remained based on the idea that citizen opposition mostly reflected deficiencies in scientific literacy.
author	Carvalho, Lucie de
author_facet	Carvalho, Lucie de
author_sort	Carvalho, Lucie de
title	“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).
title_short	“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).
title_full	“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).
title_fullStr	“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).
title_full_unstemmed	“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).
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“Remember There’s Nothing Secret About a Nuclear Power Station”: Institutional Communication on Invisible Environmental Risks in British TV Footage (1956-1982).

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