Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
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Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System is a 2008 book by Daniel Pope, a history professor at the University of Oregon
, which traces the history of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a public agency which undertook to build five large nuclear power plant
s, one of the most ambitious U.S. construction projects in the 1970s.
By 1983, cost overruns and delays, along with a slowing of electricity demand growth, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, which is still the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history. The monumental court case which followed took nearly a decade to fully resolve.
University of Oregon
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, which traces the history of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a public agency which undertook to build five large nuclear power plant
Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...
s, one of the most ambitious U.S. construction projects in the 1970s.
By 1983, cost overruns and delays, along with a slowing of electricity demand growth, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, which is still the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history. The monumental court case which followed took nearly a decade to fully resolve.
See also
- Anti-nuclear movement in the United StatesAnti-nuclear movement in the United StatesThe anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups which have acted to oppose nuclear power or nuclear weapons, or both, in the United States. These groups include the Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research,...
- List of books about nuclear issues
- Nuclear power in the United States
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