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THE MEANINGS OF A DISASTER

The Environment in History: International Perspectives

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The Meanings of a Disaster

Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France

Karena Kalmbach

First published in 2021 by
Berghahn Books
www.berghahnbooks.com

2021 Karena Kalmbach

Parts of the text and arguments that appear in this book have been previously published in:

Bauer, S., Kalmbach, K., Kasperski, T. From Pripyat to Paris, from Grassroots Memories to Globalized Knowledge Production: The Politics of Chernobyl Fallout, in Laurel MacDowell (ed.), Nuclear Portraits (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017), 14989.

Kalmbach, Karena. Tschernobyl und Frankreich: Die Debatte um die Auswirkungen des Reaktorunfalls im Kontext der franzsischen Atompolitik und Elitenkultur. Frankfurt a. M., Peter Lang, 2011.

The author is grateful to Peter Lang International Academic Publishers and University of Toronto Press to grant the rights for this publication.

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kalmbach, Karena, author.

Title: The meanings of a disaster : Chernobyl and its afterlives in Britain and France / Karena Kalmbach.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021. | Series: Environment in history: international perspectives; volume 20 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020026211 (print) | LCCN 2020026212 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789207026 (hardback) | ISBN 9781789207033 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986Social aspectsGreat Britain. | Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986Social aspectsFrance. | Nuclear energyGovernment policyGreat Britain. | Nuclear energyGovernment policyFrance.

Classification: LCC TK1362.U38 K365 2020 (print) | LCC TK1362.U38 (ebook) | DDC 363.17/99094777dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026211

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026212

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78920-702-6 hardback
ISBN 978-1-78920-703-3 ebook

Contents

Abbreviations

ACRO	Association pour le contrle de la radioactivit dans lOuest
AEA	Atomic Energy Authority (short for: UKAEA)
AFMT	Association franaise des malades de la thyrode
AGR	Advanced gas-cooled reactor
ASN	Autorit de sret nuclaire
BNES	British Nuclear Energy Society
BNFL	British Nuclear Fuels Limited
CCI	Chernobyl Children International
CCLL	Chernobyl Childrens Lifeline
CCP (UK)	Chernobyl Childrens Project UK
CEA	Commissariat lnergie atomique
CEGB	Central Electricity Generating Board
CERRIE	Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters
CND	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
COGEMA	Compagnie gnrale des matires nuclaires
CORE	Cooperation for Rehabilitation
CRIIRAD	Commission de recherche et dinformation indpendantes sur la radioactivit
DGS	Direction gnrale de la sant
DGSNR	Direction gnrale de la sret nuclaire et de la radioprotection
DoE	Department of the Environment
DSIN	Direction de la sret des installations nuclaires
EC	European Communities
EDF	Electricit de France
END	European Nuclear Disarmament
EPR	European Pressurized Reactor
ETB	Enfants de Tchernobyl Blarus
EU	European Union
FEFU	Fdration Echanges France Ukraine

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