英語NF核汚染「Plutopia, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters/プルートピア 原子力村が生みだす悲劇の連鎖」Kate Brownケイト・ブラウン著 Oxford University Press 2015年発行 US$21.95 目次他10頁+406頁 23.5×15.5×2.4㎝ 0.6㎏ Paperback
【Wikipediaより】Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters is a 2013 book by American environmental historian Kate Brown. The book is a comparative history of the cities of Richland, in the northwest United States adjacent to the U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Site plutonium production area, and Ozersk, in Russia's southern Ural mountain region. These two cities were home to the world's first plutonium production sites, and in Plutopia Brown charts the environmental and social impacts of those sites on the residents of and the environment surrounding the two cities.Brown argues that the demands of plutonium production ? both the danger of the physical process and the secrecy required in the Cold War context ? led both US and Soviet officials to create "Plutopias," ideal communities to placate resident families in exchange for their cooperation and control over their bodies. This entailed creating significant state-run welfare programs along with high levels of consumerism in both places. However, each city witnessed what Brown terms "slow-motion disasters" via the slow, and usually controlled, release of high levels of radiation into their surrounding environments. 【講談社刊高山祥子訳日訳書「プルートピア」より】“プルートピア”は「特異なユートピア」である。アメリカはワシントン州東部のリッチランドに、ソ連はウラル山脈南部のオジョルスクに、プルトニウムの街・原子力村としての“プルートピア”をつくりだした。本書は、東西冷戦という境界を越えてプルトニウムが米ソを結びつけプルートピアを生みだした経緯に注目する。インタビューと膨大な公文書記録をもとに、チェルノブイリ、福島と繰り返されてきた惨劇の源泉を掘り下げる。……