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The radiance of France
The radiance of France, 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. The Radiance , The radiance of France has a rating of 4 stars
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  • The radiance of France
  • Written by author Gabrielle Hecht
  • Published by Cambridge, Mass. ; The MIT Press, c1998., 1998/11/18
  • 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. The Radiance
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Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 A Technological Nation 21
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
2 Technopolitical Regimes 55
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
3 Technopolitics in the Fifth Republic 91
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
4 Technological Unions 131
The Politics of Unionism
Conceptualizing National Technological Progress
Recruiting Technical Elites
5 Regimes of Work 163
Marcoule
Chinon
6 Technological Spectacles 201
Salvation, Redemption, and Liberation
Reconciling Modernity and Tradition
Chateaux for the Twentieth Century
The Critics: "Two Steps Away Is the Abyss"
Counter-Spectacle: "When the Tale of Marcoule Is Told"
7 Atomic Vintage 241
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
8 Warring Systems 271
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 Program
The CEA Strikes
Economic Comparisons, Union-Style
Back to Bagnols
The Cleanup at Saint-Laurent: Healing the Technopolitical Wound
The Battle Fizzles Out
Conclusion 325
Notes 341
Bibliography 413
Index 447


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