Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution explained

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
Author:	Marilynne Robinson
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Nonfiction
Publisher:	FSG
Release Date:	1989
Media Type:	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages:	272
Isbn:	978-0-374-21361-9

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989) is a work of nonfiction by Marilynne Robinson that tells an alleged story of Sellafield, a government nuclear reprocessing plant located on the coast of the Irish Sea. The book claims that the closest village to Sellafield suffers from death and disease due to decades of waste and radiation from the plant. Mother Country was a National Book Award finalist for Nonfiction in 1989. While on sabbatical in England, Robinson's interest in the environmental ramifications of the plant began when she discovered a newspaper article detailing its hazards.^{[1] [2]}

Max Perutz, a British Nobel Prize-winning scientist, wrote a scathing review which attacked both the claimed facts and the methodologies used in assembling the arguments presented by Robinson.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson | Kirkus. kirkusreviews.com. 2014-06-02.
2. Shannon L. Mariotti, Joseph H. Lane Jr. A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson 0813167787- 2016 - This assumption pervades her first major nonfiction work —Mother Country. That work, which Robinson herself has identified as her most important book, is a polemic against the pollution of northwest England and western Scotland by the ...
3. Book: Perutz, Max . Max Perutz

   . Swords into Ploughshares . I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press . 2003 . 0-87969-674-5 . 283–297 . Max Perutz.