The Nuclear Power Renaissance in the Uk:Democratic Deficiencies within the ‘Consensus’ on Sustainability∗:

摘要: This paper focuses on New Labour’s policy towards the nuclear renaissance. It places this in context of wider discussions democratic implications new constellations governance emerging from drive more sustainable futures. The identifies two crucial developments within renaissance: firstly, controversy surrounding consultative process 2006 and 2007; secondly, creation ‘efficient’ ‘streamlined’ planning procedures through establishment Planning Act 2008 Infrastructure Commission (IPC). article builds work which seeks to bring together questions ‘democracy’ ‘the political’ ‘sustainability’. argues that an understanding these moments can only be properly established analysis discursive frame ‘sustainability’ has been reinvented, way it utilized as a strategic tool governing. apparent ‘consensus’ sustainability appears foreclose multiple divergent political imaginaries into single shared vision. is symptomatic conditions post-political post-democratic, where debate reduced managerial technocratic particularities which, regardless public engagement, power becomes ‘inevitability’