This book follows a small public agency in Washington State that
undertook one of the most ambitious construction projects in the
nation in the 1970s: the building of five large nuclear power
plants. By 1983, delays and cost overruns, along with slowed growth
of electricity demand, led to cancellation of two plants and a
construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on
$2.25 billion of municipal bonds, leading to a monumental court
case that took nearly a decade to resolve fully. Daniel Pope sets
this in the context of the postwar boom's ending, the energy shocks
of the 1970s, a new restraint in forecasting demand, and shifting
patterns of municipal finance. Nuclear Implosions also traces the
entangling alliance between civilian nuclear energy and nuclear
weapons and recounts a telling example of how the law has become a
primary method of resolving disputes in a litigious society.
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