Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System

Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System

Author	Daniel Pope
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	2008
ISBN	978-0-521-40253-8 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-511-38928-3 (e-book)
OCLC	172979863
Dewey Decimal	333.793/209797 22
LC Class	HD9685.U7 W3456 2008

Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System is a 2008 book by Daniel Pope, a history professor at the University of Oregon, which traces the history of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a public agency which undertook to build five large nuclear power plants, one of the most ambitious U.S. construction projects in the 1970s.

By 1983, cost overruns and delays, along with a slowing of electricity demand growth, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, which is still the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history. The court case that followed took nearly a decade to resolve.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Cambridge University Press Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System Retrieved 2008-11-11
↑ "Review of 'Nuclear implosions; the rise and fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System'". SciTech Book News. June 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
↑ Pope, Daniel (July 31, 2008). "A Northwest distaste for nuclear power". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2008-11-11.

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Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System

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