Nuclear implosions : the rise and fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System / Daniel Pope.
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- Washington Public Power Supply System
- Washington Public Power Supply System
- Nuclear power plants -- Washington (State) -- Design and construction -- Finance
- Electric utilities -- Washington (State) -- Finance
- Energy development -- United States
- Services publics d'électricité -- Washington (État) -- Finances
- Énergie -- Développement -- États-Unis
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Electrical
- Electric utilities -- Finance
- Energy development
- Nuclear power plants -- Design and construction -- Finance
- United States
- Washington (State)
- 333.793/209797 22
- HD9685.U7 W3456 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Background to fiasco -- WPPSS steps forward -- The second wave -- The construction morass -- Collapse -- Endgame -- Running toward an uncertain future.
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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.
English.
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