| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 282 pages) : map |
| Contents |
Background to fiasco -- WPPSS steps forward -- The second wave -- The construction morass -- Collapse -- Endgame -- Running toward an uncertain future |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Site viewed on July 29, 2008 |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Washington Public Power Supply System.
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| SUBJECT |
Washington Public Power Supply System fast |
| Subject |
Nuclear power plants -- Washington (State) -- Design and construction -- Finance
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Electric utilities -- Washington (State) -- Finance
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Energy development -- United States
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Electrical.
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Electric utilities -- Finance
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Energy development
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Nuclear power plants -- Design and construction -- Finance
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United States
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Washington (State)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coutts Information Services
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| LC no. |
2007050077 |
| ISBN |
9780511394799 |
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0511394799 |
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1107172624 |
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9781107172623 |
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0511392052 |
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9780511392054 |
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1281370533 |
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9781281370532 |
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9786611370534 |
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6611370536 |
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0511390831 |
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9780511390838 |
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0511394144 |
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9780511394140 |
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0511393369 |
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9780511393365 |
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0511511655 |
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9780511511653 |
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