The Discursive Dimensions of a Decent Deal: How Nuclear Energy Evolved from Environmental Enemy to Climate Remedy in the Parliament of Finland

  • Annukka Berg
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Abstract

This chapter aims to shed more light on the ways in which the members of the Finnish Parliament viewed the decision on the fifth NPP unit. Why did some of the MPs vote for the building of the new NPP unit? Why did some of them vote against it? In which ways have the general ideas about desirable development, economic growth and environmental risks affected their decisions? What was the structure of the discursive field in general? When analysing the discourses the author has also been interested in the ways in which the parliamentarians viewed the role and performance of different actors in deciding on the nuclear issue. How did they see their own role? What were their ideas about expert knowledge and citizen participation in the process?

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Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Energy Citizen Participation Nuclear Accident Ecological Modernization 
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