Nuclear Reactions: The Politics of Opening a Radioactive Waste Disposal Site

by Chuck McCutcheon

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located beneath the desolate flatlands near Carlsbad in south-eastern New Mexico, is the first facility of its kind in the world -- the most elaborate and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826322093
• ISBN13: 9780826322098
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Toxic things & public policy

Chuck McCutcheon is an old classmate of mine, but I have to say that I found this to be a fine work. His book is direct and forceful in presenting the lengthy story of the creation of a facility to house radioactive waste. The author almost never bogs down in the technical or mundane even as the people he is writing about are doing exactly that. There's a lot to be learned from this book, namely, how Americans deal with periodic reminders that the unpleasant (or, in this case, deadly) byproducts of our military and technical might need to be dealt with, someway, somehow, somewhere.