The Demise of Nuclear Energy?: Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology

by Joseph G. Morone

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Three Mile Island, Seabrook, Diablo Canyon: their controversies have come to symbolize the unhappy fate of American nuclear power. Three decades of effort and an investment of several hundred billion dollars have culminated in wide-spread public fear, huge financial losses, an unworkable regulatory system, and a virtual ban on new reactors. How did one of the world's most flexible political and economic systems produce such a technological white elephant?...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300044496

ISBN13:9780300044492

Release Date:September 1989

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:168 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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