Licensed to kill? : the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
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Licensed to kill? : the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
(Pitt series in policy and institutional studies)
University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997
- : pbk
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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
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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
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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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