The reactionary turn against nuclear power

EF Schumacher was born in Germany but moved to England when the Nazis were preparing for war in which his brother-in-law, Werner Heisenberg , was put in charge of developing Hitler ’s atomic bomb.

In the 1960s and 1970s , anti-nuclear campaigners challenged the establishment.

They distrusted science, politics and big business, and would no longer keep quiet.

In 1955 , he found inspiration in Burma , now Myanmar , to give economic advice.

He was there for three months to give advice to the British nationalised coal industry.

He then formulated the principles of a Buddhist economy in which not greed but ethics, harmony and personal development were central.

The Limits to Growth became the title of an influential report by the Club of Rome .

The China Syndrome premiered in cinemas in 1979 .

Jane Fonda plays a television reporter and Michael Douglas a cameraman.

They’re filming inside a nuclear plant when an incident occurs.