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

by Joseph G. Morone

Book Overview

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"