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English
Etymology
From nucleo- + -crat.
Noun
nucleocrat (plural nucleocrats)
- (usually derogatory) An expert in nuclear energy.
2008, Pierre Baby, Frederic Varone, “Europeanization of the French electricity policy: four paradoxes”, in Emiliano Grossman, editor, France and the European Union: After the Referendum on the European Constitution, Routledge:For instance, Jean Syrota, a French 'nucleocrat' and the head of the DIGEC ('Direction generale du gaz, de l'électricité et du charbon' within the ministry), and the CEO of COGEMA, a nuclear waste recycling company (Van de Hoven and Froschauer 2004: 1094), was named president of the newly instuted CRE.
2014, Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science, Abrams, page 355:Because even at the maximum level of nucleocrat ambitions, the effects on the climate are of marginal concern.
2016, Wladimir Tchertkoff, The Crime of Chernobyl: The Nuclear Gulag, Glagoslav:Although the people I was talking to assured me that Mr Lochard was not a nucleocrat and that he did useful work with the inhabitants of the contaminated territories, my curiosity was pîqued.
2022, “A Small Spark Against Enedis”, in Earth First!:A thought for our companions in jail, among them Alfredo, an Italian anarchist who shot a nucleocrat.
References
- Karena Kalmbach (2013) “Radiation and Borders: Chernobyl as a National and Transnational Site of Memory”, in Global Environment, volume 11, page 140 n. 21.