Andrew Blowers OBE is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the Open University. Over a long career he has been involved in the field of environmental politics and policy making as an academic, politician, government adviser, nuclear company director and prominent environmental activist. As a member of the first Committee on Radioactive Waste Management he was directly responsible for some of the UK's policy on legacy waste. The Legacy of Nuclear Power brings together his varied experience and expertise and reflects his lifetime concern with the fate of nuclear communities now and in the future.

The Legacy of Nuclear Power provides a historical and geographical perspective going back to the origins of these places and discusses the ever changing relationship between local communities and the nuclear industry. The case studies are based on academic and policy sources and on conversations with an array of people over many years. Each story is mediated through a theoretical framework focused on the concept of 'peripheral communities' developing through changing discourses of nuclear energy. This interdisciplinary book brings together social, political and ethical themes to produce a work provides profound insights into how the nuclear legacy should be managed.

1. Nuclear oases - the persistence of the periphery
2. Hanford, USA - an enduring legacy
3. Sellafield, UK - a paradox of power
4. La Hague and Bure, France - the traditional and the modern
5. Gorleben, Germany - the power of resistance
6. Conclusion