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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Nuclear Implosions
• Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
• Author: Daniel Pope
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780521179744
• ISBN: 0521179742
• ID: 02024858
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. February 2011

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