Nuclear Power Goes On-Line: A History of Shippingport

by William Beaver

On May 26, 1958, the Shippingport, Pennsylvania, nuclear power station ushered in the age of the peaceful atom when it became the first nuclear power plant to go on-line. Throughout its more than three decades of operation, Shippingport encountered many of the crucial problems and issues that still confront nuclear power: policy formation, the role of government in technological innovation, technological management, environmental issues, breeder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313272441
• ISBN13: 9780313272448
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"