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Jul 20, 2017 Article
Good Nuclear Neighbours: the British electricity industry and the communication of nuclear power to the public, 1950s–1980s

by Thomas Lean and Sally Horrocks

Between the 1950s and the 1980s the British nuclear industry engaged with ordinary people in a wide range of ways. These included articles in the print media, exhibitions and educational resources as well as through open days, developing nature reserves and building relations with the local communities around nuclear sites. This paper draws on recently collected oral history interviews and archival material to consider what was one of the largest and best resourced efforts to communicate science to the British public between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Volume 16 • Issue 03 • 2017 • Special Issue: History of Science Communication, 2017