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This book challenges the existing histories and associated explanations for the growth of the anti-civil nuclear power movement in the UK from 1955 to 1979. It argues that opposition to nuclear power emerged in the 1970s because of the post-war concerns of a minority of people about the dangers of atomic energy. Continuity of opposition to the building of nuclear power stations dated back to the 1950s. It illustrates these concerns through an examination of the ecological messages contained in best-selling science fiction novels from the late 1940s to mid 1960s. It further shows how a minority of the 1960s underground press blended the old conservation ideas with counterculture styles to create new radical groups - the 1970s environmentalists typified by Friends of the Earth. The book seeks to answer the question: Why an anti-nuclear power movement instead of an anti-coal or anti-asbestos movement? What was it about nuclear power that generated such opposition? Its environmental impact, its cost, its prospects or its symbolism? Finally it asks whether wind power in the twenty-first century could fall victim to the same forces that opposed the expansion of nuclear power thirty years ago.

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