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Abstract:
In France, nuclear power is today a sensitive issue, more often approached with passion than with reason. Indeed, it suffers from the results of a communication almost totally focused on its negative aspects, matched by frequent political connotations. This communication uses particularly mental images, tools intended to direct the thought, not to inform. The point of view of an Historian takes then all its importance: it allows to put into perspective the evolution of the discourse and to perceive very clearly the changes, the steps. This evolution is mainly analyzed here through L'Express, the major French weekly of the period to consider, that is between 1965 and 1997, and more precisely by focusing on mental images. It may lead to an open field of reflection, as an evolution is not definitively fixed.
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