From the occupational hazards experienced by workers to the public problem of nuclear waste
The occupational hazards of work in the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague, one of the main nuclear facilities in France, was raised as a public problem in the 1970s. One of the highlights was the clandestine filming of the movie Condamnés à réussir, which created wider public awareness as to the risks of this industry, at a time of increased competition for control over the nuclear problem. By highlighting the common interests of those working in this sector and their sense of responsibility towards the population, and then by expressing this collective experience in a work broadcast outside La Hague to various audiences, this document—half empirical investigation, half fictional reconstruction—contributed to a new dramatization of the public problem of nuclear production.