“The human capacity for oxymoronic optimism will literally take your breath away if you’re among the millions living downwind from the dumps.”
Gabrielle Hecht
Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at Stanford University, author of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade and The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (both MIT Press, 2014 & 2000), and editor of Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (MIT Press, 2011). 
Does Chernobyl Still Matter?
Since it first announced electricity “too cheap to meter,” in the 1950s, the nuclear industry has promised bountiful futures powered by a peaceful—and safe—atom ...