Nuclear Implosions - The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Pope (b. 1946! Ph.D. Columbia University! 1973) is an American historian teaching at the University of Oregon since 1975. Pope is the author of The Making of Modern Advertising (1983)! the editor of American Radicalism (2001) and many articles and reviews on the history of advertising! marketing! and consumer culture. Pope was the Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School (1980-1981)! held two Fulbright Senior Lecturer positions (University of Rome! 1996! Copenhagen Business School! 2004) and received the University of Oregon's Burlington-Northern Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989. Klappentext Daniel Pope follows the collapse of a small public agency's attempts to build five nuclear power plants in the 1970s. Zusammenfassung In the 1970s! a small public agency in Washington State undertook one of the most ambitious construction projects in the nation: the building of five large nuclear power plants. Fraught with problems! the agency eventually defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds and highlighted the nation's troubled attempts to resolve conflict through complex legal cases. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Pope, Pope Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521402538
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40253-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, Washington State, Washington (US State), Energy industries and utilities, Nuclear Power Industries