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PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 514-533Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0963662510371630
Keywords
energy policy; lay expertise; practical reasoning; public understanding of science; risk perception; science and popular culture
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- ESRC [ES/F033222/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F033222/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The extent to which nuclear energy technologies are, in some sense, stigmatised by historical environmental and military associations is of particular interest in contemporary debates about sustainable energy policy. Recent claims in the literature suggest that despite such stigmatisation, lay views on such technologies may be shifting towards a reluctant acceptance, in the light of concerns about issues like anthropogenic climate change. In this paper, we report on research into learning and reasoning processes concerned with a largely unknown nuclear energy technology; namely fusion power. We focus on the role of the nuclear label, or brand, in informing how lay citizens make sense of the nature of this technology. Our findings derive from a comparative analysis of data generated in Spain and Britain, using the same methodology.
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