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Nuclear reactions : the politics of opening a radioactive waste disposal site

Title
Nuclear reactions : the politics of opening a radioactive waste disposal site / Chuck McCutcheon.
Author
McCutcheon, Chuck, 1963-
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Description
xi, 231 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. "A Way ... to Make a Buck": 1971-76: Carlsbad and WIPP -- Ch. 2. "This Is Not a Predictable Situation": 1975-78: Opposition Emerges in New Mexico -- Ch. 3. "An Equal Partner": 1978-81: Congress, New Mexico Seek Control -- Ch. 4. "I'm Not in the Garbage Business Anymore": 1981-88: Idaho, Plutonium Poker, and Opening WIPP -- Ch. 5. "I Love WIPP!": 1989: An Admiral at the Helm -- Ch. 6. "No Discernible Scientific Basis": 1990-92: Underground Testing, Congress, and Scientific Doubt -- Ch. 7. "A Major Break": 1993-96: Canceling Testing, Preparing for Disposal -- Ch. 8. "This Is Indeed Historic": 1997-2001: After Fighting his Own State, Richardson Opens WIPP.
ISBN
  • 0826322093 (cloth)
  • 0826322107 (pbk.)
LCCN
2002006711
OCLC
  • ocm49773670
  • SCSB-4317313
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries