Déconstruire Superphénix.

Un débat public vu par la presse régionale (1997-2013).

In 1996, after only eleven years of operation, the Superphénix fast breeder reactor was shut down. The following year, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin decided in favour of a permanent shutdown and immediate decommissioning. A fierce controversy ensued, where various actors questioned the technical rationale and local implications of such a decision. The local press has given accounts of the controversy. This paper is based on a corpus of 337 articles published between 1997 and 2013 and presents [...]