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Three Mile Island: the meltdown crisis and nuclear power in American popular culture

Halden, Grace (2017) Three Mile Island: the meltdown crisis and nuclear power in American popular culture. Critical Moments in American History. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138917644.

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This book forges links between the Three Mile Island partial meltdown event in 1979 and wider social contexts of nuclear development through navigation of primary sources, responses in popular culture, and critical scholarly work in the field. The focus of this book lingers not in the control room, but on the state of Pennsylvania, America, and the wider world. Chiefly, this book examines how the public found meaning in the Atomic Age and how this in turn influenced public perception of events such as Three Mile Island, and shaped cultural responses to them.

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Item Type: Book
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): nuclear, literature, fiction, world war II, nuclear war, holocaust, three mile island, chernobyl, fukushima, power plant, power station, american studies, culture
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User: Grace Halden
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2017 11:05
Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:41
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/17908

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