Research Catalog

Title

Insuring against disaster : the nuclear industry on trial / by John W. Johnson.

Author

Johnson, John W., 1946-

Publication

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, ©1986.

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Details

Description

xii, 284 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Nuclear power and nuclear plant safety are currently in the news. In this timely work, Johnson discusses conflicts between the nuclear industry and its critics through an in-depth legal/historical account of Duke Power Company and Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Carolina Environmental Study Group (1978). The CESG lawsuit hinged on the constitutionality of Congress's protection of the commercial nuclear industry. The author carefully examines the Price-Anderson Act (1957), which limits that industry's liability to $560 million for a nuclear accident. Johnson explains the group conflicts surrounding the litigation and the Supreme Court's approval of the limitation of liability feature. The issues raised in that litigation are still significant. Recommended. Steven Puro, Political Science Dept., St. Louis Univ. Copyright 1986 Cahners Business Information.

Subject

• Carolina Environmental Study Group > Trials, litigation, etc
• Duke Power Company > Trials, litigation, etc
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission > Trials, litigation, etc
• Carolina Environmental Study Group
• Duke Power Company
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Nuclear hazards insurance > Law and legislation > United States
• Liability for nuclear damages > United States
• Liability for nuclear damages
• Nuclear hazards insurance > Law and legislation
• Haftung
• Kernenergiewirtschaft
• Kernkraftwerk
• Risikoanalyse
• Störfall
• Versicherungsrecht
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [273]-278.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The power company and the garden club -- Local lawyers, interveners, and a fortuitous afterthought -- Clearing away the legal underbrush -- The statue -- The statute, revised -- Preparing for court -- The judge and the hearing -- The hearing concludes and a tour is taken -- The judge versus Mr. Micawber -- The appeal -- The appellate briefs -- The oral argument and the release of the genie -- The Supreme Court decision: statesmanship or expedience? -- An imprimatur for the nuclear industry? -- From Charlotte to Three Mile Island...and beyond -- Epilogue -- Bibliographical essay -- Index.

ISBN

• 0865542007
• 9780865542006

LCCN

• 85031933
• ZBWT00034880

OCLC

• ocm13010053
• 13010053
• SCSB-9003460

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library