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Nuclear Implosions
The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
Author: Pope Daniel
Daniel Pope follows the collapse of a small public agency's attempts to build five nuclear power plants in the 1970s.
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Nuclear Implosions
Publication date: 02-2011
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Publication date: 02-2011
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Financing nuclear power
Publication date: 02-2008
304 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 02-2008
304 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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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.
1. Background to fiasco; 2. WPPSS steps forward; 3. The next wave; 4. The construction morass; 5. Collapse; 6. Endgame; 7. Running toward an uncertain future.
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