ABSTRACT
Education and salesmanship became devices to in a similar sense of mission in others; moral imperatives to convince groups of buyers or critics that nuclear power were the technology of the future. In the many years spent learning about nuclear power, the politicians involved themselves heavily in the science and technology of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy was symptomatic of the problems inherent in capitalism and in life-styles based on consumption. In essence, the politics of the nuclear power controversy began to shift. Morgan cautioned that too radical reduction in maximum permissible exposure to radiation hazards, particularly around nuclear power plants, would jeopardize the future of nuclear power. For the activists there was worse news than simply exposing past sins of the nuclear establishment. The nuclear establishment had made "largely irreversible decisions" without being "100 percent technologically sure" that the plants were safe. A dense emotional fog had built up around the nuclear issue, both internationally and domestically.
