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nucleocrat

nucleocrat noun: an expert in nuclear energy.

Noun

nucleocrat (plural nucleocrats)

  1. (derogatory, usually) An expert in nuclear energy.
    • For instance, Jean Syrota, a French 'nucleocrat' and the head of the DIGEC ('Direction generale du gaz, de l'électricité et du charbon' within the ministry), and the CEO of COGEMA, a nuclear waste recycling company (Van de Hoven and Froschauer 2004: 1094), was named president of the newly instuted...2008, Pierre Baby, Frederic Varone, “Europeanization of the French electricity policy: four paradoxes”, in Emiliano Grossman, editor, France and the European Union: After the Referendum on the...
    • Because even at the maximum level of nucleocrat ambitions, the effects on the climate are of marginal concern.2014, Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science, Abrams, page 355

Examples of nucleocrat in a sentence

  • Although the people I was talking to assured me that Mr Lochard was not a nucleocrat and that he did useful work with the inhabitants of the contaminated territories, my curiosity was pîqued.2016, Wladimir Tchertkoff, The Crime of Chernobyl: The Nuclear Gulag, Glagoslav:
  • A thought for our companions in jail, among them Alfredo, an Italian anarchist who shot a nucleocrat.2022, “A Small Spark Against Enedis”, in Earth First!, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:

Forms of nucleocrat

pluralnucleocrats

Origin of nucleocrat

From nucleo- + -crat.

Questions about nucleocrat

What does nucleocrat mean?
Nucleocrat means an expert in nuclear energy.
How do you use nucleocrat in a sentence?
Although the people I was talking to assured me that Mr Lochard was not a nucleocrat and that he did useful work with the inhabitants of the contaminated territories, my curiosity was pîqued.
What part of speech is nucleocrat?
Nucleocrat is a noun.
What is the plural of nucleocrat?
The plural of nucleocrat is nucleocrats.

Words near nucleocrat in the dictionary

  1. nucleocosmochronological
  2. nucleocosmochronology
  3. nucleocounter
  4. nucleocounters
  5. nucleocracy
  6. nucleocrat
  7. nucleocrats
  8. nucleocuvette
  9. nucleocuvettes
  10. nucleocytoplasm
  11. nucleocytoplasmic

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