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Engineers and Scientists as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Programme

In: Technology and Globalisation

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  • Joseba Torre

    (Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA))

  • M. d. Mar Rubio-Varas

    (INARBE, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA))

  • Gloria Sanz Lafuente

    (Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA))

Abstract

The unique nature of the technological, financial and managerial decisions of the civil uses of nuclear power granted a leading role to engineers and scientists employed by the state and private companies in the USA, West Germany and the UK. But in less-developed countries too, such as Spain, the nuclear programme was started and influenced by a small group of engineers and scientists who operated as agents of economic modernization in the decision-making framework of a dictatorship. Making use of new archival sources, this chapter identifies three of these actors: two Spanish industrial engineers and executive directors, Jaime MacVeigh and Manuel Gutiérrez-Cortines, and the German scientist Karl Wirtz as facilitator. These three players performed strategic roles in the Spanish nuclear programme.

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  • Joseba Torre & M. d. Mar Rubio-Varas & Gloria Sanz Lafuente, 2018. "Engineers and Scientists as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Programme," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: David Pretel & Lino Camprubí (ed.), Technology and Globalisation, chapter 12, pages 313-340, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-75450-5_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75450-5_12
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