| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 282 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Background to fiasco -- WPPSS steps forward -- The second wave -- The construction morass -- Collapse -- Endgame -- Running toward an uncertain future. |
| Note |
Site viewed on July 29, 2008. |
| Summary |
This book follows a small public agency in Washington State that undertook one of the most ambitious construction projects in the nation in the 1970s: the building of five large nuclear power plants. By 1983, delays and cost overruns, along with slowed growth of electricity demand, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, leading to a monumental court case that took nearly a decade to resolve fully. Daniel Pope sets this in the context of the postwar boom's ending, the energy shocks of the 1970s, a new restraint in forecasting demand, and shifting patterns of municipal finance. Nuclear Implosions also traces the entangling alliance between civilian nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and recounts a telling example of how the law has become a primary method of resolving disputes in a litigious society. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Washington Public Power Supply System.
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Washington Public Power Supply System. |
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Nuclear power plants -- Washington (State) -- Design and construction -- Finance.
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Nuclear power plants. |
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Washington (State) |
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Finance. |
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Electric utilities -- Washington (State) -- Finance.
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Electric utilities. |
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Energy development -- United States.
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Energy development. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Coutts Information Services.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pope, Daniel, 1946- Nuclear implosions. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521402538 0521402530 (DLC) 2007050077 (OCoLC)172979863 |
| ISBN |
9780511394799 (electronic book) |
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0511394799 (electronic book) |
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9780521402538 (hardback) |
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0521402530 (hardback) |
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9780521179744 |
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0521179742 |
| Standard No. |
9786611370534 |
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