Nuclear Fiction within Nuclear Knowledge Management: Towards Energy Literacy

The presentation on the literary dimensions of ‘nuclear energy’ figurations in the contemporary nuclear fiction (on the example of the writing practices from the late Cold War till nowadays) demonstrates that ‘fabulously textual’ (Derrida, 1984) component of ‘the nuclear’ discourse went under transformations by shifting its references from the past (the Cold War atomic bomb literature) and from the future (the apocalyptic fiction) implications to the present one, emphasizing ‘nuclear energy’ in the context of sustainable development (nuclear policy, technology production, energy transition, nuclear explosions, uranium mines, nuclear waste management etc). Under such circumstances nuclear fiction can be regarded as a component of nuclear knowledge management (IAEA, 2020), in the aspect of its role in shaping nuclear awareness – a critical thinking about the possible benefits, risks and challenges of nuclear energy and contributes to a critical perception of nuclear energy issues – as a component of energy literacy.Peer reviewe