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Licensed to kill? : the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aron, Joan B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1997]
Series:Pitt series in policy and institutional studies.
Subjects:
Shoreham Nuclear Powerplant (N.Y.)
Nuclear power plants > Licenses > New York (State)
Nuclear industry > Government policy > United States.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Table of Contents:
  • World-class fiasco on Long Island Sound
  • LILCO's early enthusiasm and errors
  • Constructing Shoreham and making enemies
  • Precursor of disaster : Three Mile Island
  • Governments in collision : squabbling over the emergency plan
  • Who decides? : state economic power
  • Dead on arrival : NRC licenses a canceled power plant
  • The message.