ABSTRACT
During the 1950s, when technology was uncritically accepted by most to be the guarantor of unlimited future economic growth, the experts’ predictions about the success of nuclear power were particularly enthusiastic. It was said that energy was going to be so abundant and its generation so easy, efficient, and cheap, that consumers would, at worst, be charged a flat fee to cover the cost of the infrastructure necessary to transmit power from the plant to the home (D.A. Norman, 1993).
