Chapter 4 “No Atom in Our Home” Targeting Domestic Nuclear Facilities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Foreword: Political Isotopes x
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 Ignoring the Atom The Parallel Developments of Poland’s Democratic Opposition and Western “New Social Movements” 16
8. Chapter 2 Polish Political Environmentalism before Chernobyl 36
9. Chapter 3 The Chernobyl Catastrophe and Its Aftermath 55
10. Chapter 4 “No Atom in Our Home” Targeting Domestic Nuclear Facilities 73
11. Chapter 5 Kopań and Klempicz: The NPPs That Never Came to Be 96
12. Chapter 6 Communism Might Be Over— Nuclear Is Not: The Round Table Talks and the Escalation of Anti-Żarnowiec Protests 116
13. Chapter 7 When the Government Won’t Listen: Four Acts of Desperation (1989–1990) 141
14. Chapter 8 The Boundaries of a New Democracy: Experiments with Participatory Governance and a Grassroots Referendum (1990) 163
15. Conclusion 186
16. Index 206