Licensed to kill? : the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
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Bibliographic Information
Licensed to kill? : the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
(Pitt series in policy and institutional studies)
University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-178) and index
Contents of Works
- World-class fiasco on Long Island Sound
- LILCO's early enthusiasm and errors
- Constructing Shoreham and making enemies
- Precursor of disaster : Three Mile Island
- Governments in collision : squabbling over the emergency plan
- Who decides? : state economic power
- Dead on arrival : NRC licenses a canceled power plant
- The message
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780822940449
Description
Taking the $5.5 billion never-used nuclear power station at Shoreham, Long Island as an example, the author explores the standstill in the nuclear power industry. Among the many reasons advanced for the failure of nuclear power she focuses on the public's distrust of the utilities and regulators.
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: pbk ISBN 9780822956495
Description
Examines the nuclear power plant constructed at Shoreham, New York, and the accumulated miscalculations and mishaps that eventually forced its deconstruction. An intricate study of the groups, policies and regulatory issues involved in a historic legal battle.
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