The Politics of Nuclear Power: A History of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (Risk, Governance and Society)

by D . P . Mc Caffrey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $224.34

  Admiral Lewis Strauss, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, stated that atomic power would generate electricity too cheap to meter (A statement that, according to Brookhaven National Laboratories' physicist Herbert Kouts, immediately caused consternation among his technical advisors [Kouts, 1983: 3)).