Nuclear Power Bibliography

 

 

Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

 

Anderson, Victor. Illusions of Power: A History of the Washington Public Power Supply System (Wppss). New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1985.

 

Aron, Joan. Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

 

Balogh, Brian. Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 

Bauer, Martin, ed. Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology, and Biotechnology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

 

Beaver, William. "Duquesne Light and Shippingport: Nuclear Power Is Born in Western Pennsylvania." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 70, no. 4 (1987): 339-58.

 

———. Nuclear Power Goes on-Line: A History of Shippingport. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

 

———. "The Shippingport Atomic Power Station: Problems in Technology Transfer." History and Technology 6, no. 4 (1988): 257-73.

 

Bedford, Henry F. Seabrook Station: Citizen Politics and Nuclear Power. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.

 

Campbell, John L. Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

 

Cantelon, Philip L. and Robert C. Williams. Crisis Contained: The Department of Energy at Three Mile Island. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.

 

Carlisle, Rodney P. "Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Nuclear Reactors: Engineering Success, Public Relations Failure." Technology and Culture 38, no. 4 (1997): 920-41.

 

Churchill, Ward. "A Breach of Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North America." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 23, no. 4 (1999): 23-69.

 

 

Coates, Peter. "Project Chariot: Alaskan Roots of Environmentalism." Alaska History 4, no. 2 (1989): 1-31.

 

Cowan, Robin. "Nuclear Power Reactors: A Study in Technological Lock-In." Journal of Economic History 50, no. 3 (1990): 541-67.

 

DelSesto, Steven L. Science, Politics, and Controversy: Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States, 1946-1974. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1979.

 

Driscoll, David B. "Slow Boil: The Story of Wisconsin's First Nuclear Reactor." Wisconsin Magazine of History 85, no. 1 (2001): 34-45.

 

Fehner, Terrence R. and F.G. Gosling. "Coming in from the Cold: Regulating U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities, 1942-1996." Environmental History 12 (1996): 5-33.

 

Findlay, John M. "Atomic Frontier Days: Richland, Washington, and the Modern American West." Journal of the West 34, no. 3 (1995): 32-41.

 

Grossman, Karl. "The Rise and Fall of Lilco's Nuclear Power Program." Long Island Historical Journal 5, no. 1 (1992): 20-20.

 

Hales, Peter Bacon. Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

 

Hart, David. Nuclear Power in India: A Comparative Analysis. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983.

 

Hecht, Gabrielle. The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War Ii. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998.

 

Hevly, Bruce and John M. Findlay, ed. The Atomic West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

 

Holl, Jack M., Richard Hewlett, and Ruth Harris. Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-1996. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

 

Hunner, Jon. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

 

Johnson, Bill. "Fort Greely's Remote Reactor: Alaska's Experiment with Nuclear Power." Alaska History 11, no. 1 (1996): 26-34.

 

Johnson, Charles W. and Charles O. Jackson. City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge Tennessee, 1942-1946. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.

 

Johnson, John. Insuring against Disaster: The Nuclear Industry on Trial. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986.

 

———. "Nuclear Power and the Price-Anderson Act: An Overview of a Policy in Transition." Journal of Policy History 2, no. 2 (1990): 213-32.

 

Johnson, Leland and Daniel Schaffer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The First Fifty Years. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

 

Kotval, Zenia and John Robert Mullin. "The Closing of the Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Plant: The Impact on the New England Community." Journal of the American Planning Association 63, no. 4 (1997): 454-68.

 

Kuletz, Valerie The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge, 1998.

 

Langer, Mark. "Why the Atom Is Our Friend: Disney, General Dynamics and the Uss Nautilus." Art History 18, no. 1 (1995): 63-96.

 

Laning, Richard B. "The Seawolf's Sodium-Cooled Power Plant." Naval History 6, no. 1 (1992): 45-48.

 

Leigland, James and Robert Lamb. Wpp$$: Who Is to Blame for the Wppss Disaster. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1986.

 

Luckin, Bill. "Nuclear Meltdown and the Culture of Risk." Technology and Culture 46, no. 2 (2005): 393-99.

 

Macfarlane, Allison M. and Rodney C. Ewing, ed. Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

 

Mazuzan, George T. "Conflict of Interest: Promoting and Regulating the Infant Nuclear Power Industry, 1954-1956." Historian 44, no. 1 (1981): 1-14.

 

———. "'Very Risky Business': A Power Reactor in New York City." Technology and Culture 27, no. 2 (1986): 262-84.

 

Mazuzan, George T. and J.Samuel Walker. Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation 1946-1962. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

 

McCaffrey, David. The Politics of Nuclear Power: A History of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. AH. Dordrecht , The Netherlands: Kluver Academic Publishers, 1991.

 

 

Meehan, Richard L. The Atom and the Fault: Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.

 

Miner, Craig. Wolf Creek Station: Kansas Gas and Electric Company in the Nuclear Era. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993.

 

Moeller, James W. "Pepco, the Potomac, and Nuclear Power." Washington History 11, no. 1 (1999): 44-61.

 

Mogren, Eric. Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

 

Morone, Joseph G. and Edward J. Woodhouse. The Demise of Nuclear Energy? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

 

Myhra, David. Washington Public Power Supply System Nuclear Plants. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 1982.

 

Nelson, Lin. "Promise Her Everything: The Nuclear Power Industry's Agenda for Women." Feminist Studies 10, no. 2 (1984): 291-314.

 

Okrent, David. Nuclear Reactor Safety: On the History of the Regulatory Process. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.

 

Olwell, Russell B. At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

 

Osif, Bonnie A. Anthony J. Baratta, and Thomas W. Conking,. Tmi Twenty Five Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2004.

 

Palfreman, Jon. "A Tale of Two Fears: Exploring Media Depictions of Nuclear Power and Global Warming." Review of Policy Research 23, no. 1 (2006): 23-43.

 

Perin, Constance. Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

 

Pope, Daniel. "Environmental Constraints and Organizational Failures: The Washington Public Power Supply System." Business and Economic History 19 (1990): 74-82.

 

Rees, Joseph V. Hostages for Each Other: The Transformation of the Nuclear Power Industry after Three Mile Island. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

 

Rolph, Elizabeth S. Nuclear Power and Public Safety: A Study in Regulation. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1979.

Schrenpfer, Susan R. "The Nuclear Crucible: Diablo Canyon and the Transformation of the Sierra Club." California History 7, no. 2 (1992): 212-37.

 

Stever, Donald W. Jr. Seabrook and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: The Licensing of a Nuclear Power Plant. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1980.

 

Stills, David L., C. P. Wolf, and Vivien B. Shelanski, , ed. Accident at Three Mile Island: The Human Dimensions. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1982.

 

Sugai, Wayne H. Nuclear Power and Ratepayer Protest: The Washington Public Power Supply System Crisis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987.

 

Szasz, Ferenc M. "New Mexico's Forgotten Nuclear Tests: Projects Gnome (1961) and Gasbuggy (1967)." New Mexico Historical Review 73, no. 4 (1998): 347-70.

 

Turkel, Gerald and William Lofquist. "The Price-Anderson Act and the Planning of Nuclear Power Development: Legislating Limits to Liability, 1954-1967." Essays in Economic and Business History 8 (1990): 317-30.

 

Walker, J. Samuel. "The Atomic Energy Commission and the Politics of Radiation Protection." Isis 85, no. 1 (1994): 57-78.

 

———. Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

 

———. "Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: The Controversy over Nuclear Exports." Diplomatic History 25, no. 2 (2001): 215-49.

 

———. "Nuclear Power and the Environment: The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965-1971." Technology and Culture 30, no. 4 (1989): 964-92.

 

———. Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

 

———. "Reactor at the Fault: The Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant Controversy, 1958-1964 - a Case Study in the Politics of Technology." Pacific Historical Review 59, no. 3 (1990): 332-48.

 

———. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

 

Walsh, Edward J. Democracy in the Shadows: Citizen Mobilization in the Wake of the Accident at Three Mile Island. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988.

 

 

Weathersby, Brian. "Gulf States Utilities and Nuclear Power: The Building of River Bend Power Plant." Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record 32 (1996): 73-86.

 

Wellock, Thomas Raymond. "Atomic Power in the West." Journal of the West 44, no. 1 (2005): 45-54.

 

———. "The Battle for Bodega Bay: The Sierra Club and Nuclear Power." California History 7, no. 2 (1992): 192-211.

 

———. Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

 

———. "Stick It in La! Community Control and Nuclear Power in California's Central Valley." Journal of American History 84, no. 3 (1997): 942-78.

 

Wills, John. Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2006.

 

Wolensky, Kenneth C., Interviewer. "Interview of Harold Denton; from Chaos to Calm: Remembering the Three-Mile Island Crisis." Pennsylvania Heritage 26, no. 2 (2000): 30-39.