THE DEMISE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY?

Reviewed 7/31/2011

The Demise of Nuclear Energy?, by Morone & Woodhouse

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THE DEMISE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology Joseph G. Morone Edward J. Woodhouse New Haven: Yale University Press, April 1989				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-300-04449-2
ISBN-10 0-300-04449-6	172pp.	HC/GSI	$21.00

Selected Books Cited By the Authors

This is not even a complete list of all the books cited. I have left out a few that struck me as too general, for example Disturbing the Universe and Infinite in All Directions, both by Freeman Dyson. But even including all the books would not exhaust the authors' list of citations, for they cite many newspaper stories, magazine and journal articles, and more than a few government or industry reports. It evinces a remarkable dedication to scholarship.

In my table, I have classified the books into somewhat arbitrary categories. I expect to be shuffling these around as I get more familiar with the books. I may drop some books entirely. There is a subset of those under "Nuclear Power and its Discontents" that the authors call "overly partisan." Most of them come from reputable publishers, so I doubt this; but I'll have to reserve judgement until I examine each book. The numbers at the left indicate the page number of the footnote citing each work. Those on the right, in the blue-shaded cells, are catalog numbers for a local library. Ultimately, I expect to replace these with some capsule review.

Advocates for the Atom
3	Bernard L. Cohen Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy New York: Plenum Press, 1983
7	Mark Hertsgaard Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy New York: Pantheon, 1983
25	Alvin M. Weinberg et. al. The Second Nuclear Era: A New Start for Nuclear Power New York: Praeger, 1985
Handling Risky Technologies
4	David L. Sills et. al. (eds) Accident at Three Mile Island: The Human Dimension Boulder: Westview Press, 1982
4	Peter Stoler Decline and Fall: The Ailing Nuclear Power Industry New York: Dodd, Mead & Co,, 1985	Diff. Title: 8TK9023.N43 1990
5	Donald W. Stever Seabrook and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1980
6	George T. Mazuzan & J. Samuel Walker Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation 1946-62 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984
7	Morone & Woodhouse Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986
9	David Collingridge Technology in the Policy Process: Controlling Nuclear Power New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983
9	David Collingridge The Social Control of Technology London: Frances Pinter, 1980
10	Charles Perrow Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies New York: Basic Books, 1984	8T54.P47 1984 7 more titles
10	Baruch Fischoff et. al. Acceptable Risk New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984
10	Aaron Wildavsky & Mary Douglas Risk and Culture Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981
16	Susan G. Hadden (ed.) Risk Analysis, Institutions and Public Policy Port Washington, NY: Associated Faculty Press, 1984
44	Thomas E. Murray Nuclear Policy in War and Peace Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1960	Corrected from footnote 47. 6HD9698.U52M8
51	Harold P. Green & Alan Rosenthal Government of the Atom: The Integration of Powers New York: Atherton, 1963
58	Phillip C. Jessup (ed) Atoms for Power: United States Policy in Atomic Energy Development New York: American Assembly, 1957
69	C. P. Russel Reactor Safeguards New York: Macmillan, 1962
71	E. S. Rolph Nuclear Power and the Public Safety Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1979
85	Frank G. Dawson Nuclear Power: Development and Management of a Technology Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976
85	Joseph L. Campbell Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988
Public Reactions to Private Reactors
3	President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island The Need for Change: The Legacy of TMI Washington, DC: USGPO, 1979
3	Office of Technology Assessment Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty: OTA-E-216 Washington, DC: USGPO, 1984
4	William R. Freudenberg & Eugene A. Rosa (eds) Public Reactions To Nuclear Power: Are There Critical Masses? Boulder: Westview Press, 1982
4	Stanley Nealey et. al. Public Opinion and Nuclear Energy Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983
4	Christopher Flavin Reassessing Nuclear Power: The Fallout from Chernobyl Washington: Worldwatch Institute, 1987
6	Charles A. Walker et. al. (eds) Too Hot to Handle?: Social and Policy Issues in the Management of Radioactive Wastes New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983
6	Irwin C. Bupp & Jean-Claude Derian The Failed Promise of Nuclear Power: The Story of Light Water New York: Basic Books, 1978/1981
7	Steven L. Del Sesto Science, Politics, and Controversy: Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States, 1946-1974 Boulder: Westview Press, 1979
20	Langdon Winner Autonomous Technology: Technics-Out-Of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977	8T14.5.W56
20	Langdon Winner The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986	8T14.W54 1986 PB ed 1989
89	Seymour M. Lipset & William Schneider The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor and Government in the Public Mind New York: Free Press, 1983
94	Richard C. Schwing & Walter A. Albers (eds) Societal Risk Assessment: How Safe Is Safe Enough? New York: Plenum, 1980
124	Charles E. Lindblom The Intelligence of Democracy New York: Free Press, 1965
136	Michael E. Kraft & Norman J. Vig (eds) Technology and Politics Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988
146	Walter A. Rosenbaum Energy, Politics, and Public Policy, 2d ed. Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1987
Nuclear Power and its Discontents
6	Daniel Ford The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982	ISBN 0671253018 8TK9023.F67 1982
7	Judith Cook Red Alert: The Worldwide Dangers of Nuclear Power Sevenoaks, UK: New English Library, 1986	Out, out, damned top-border pixel!
7	Karl Grossman Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed To Know about Nuclear Power Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1980
7	Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoyle Commonsense in Nuclear Energy San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1980	8TJ163.2.H72 1980
7	Daniel F. Ford Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown New York: Penguin, 1982	8TK1345.H37 F67 1982b
7	Michio Kaku & Jennifer Trainer (eds) Nuclear Power, Both Sides: The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology New York: W. W. Norton, 1982	8TK9023.N8 1982
7	Michelle Adato & The Union of Concerned Scientists (eds) Safety Second: The NRC and America's Nuclear Power Plants Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987	8TK9152.A54 1987
7	K. S. [Kristen Sharon] Shrader-Frechette Nuclear Power and Public Policy, 2d ed Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1983	6HD9698.U52 S54 9 more titles
7	S. David Aviel The Politics of Nuclear Energy Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1982
7	Andrew Blowers & David Pepper (eds) Nuclear Power in Crisis: Politics and Planning for the Nuclear State New York: Nichols, 1987
7	Joseph A. Camilleri The State and Nuclear Power: Conflict and Control in the Western World Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984	6HD9698.A2 C33 1984 5 more titles
7	Jim Falk Global Fission: The Battle over Nuclear Power New York: Oxford University Press, 1982	3 other titles
7	Christopher Flavin Nuclear Power: The Market Test Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 1987	5 other titles
7	Martin J. Pasqualetti & K. D. Pijawka (eds) Nuclear Power: Assessing and Managing Hazardous Technology Boulder: Westview Press, 1984	8TK9155.N77 1984 1 more title
7	William B. Walker & Måns Lönnroth Nuclear Power Struggles: Industrial Competition and Proliferation Control London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983	6HD9698.A2 W28 1983
7	Phil Williams The Nuclear Debate: Issues and Politics Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984
7	William C. Wood Nuclear Safety, Risks and Regulation Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1983	7KF2138.W66 1983
Reactor Technology
32	J. Lane, H. McPherson & F. Maslen Fluid Fuel Reactors Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1958
43	Robert L. Loftness Nuclear Power Plants: Design, Operating Experience and Economics New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1964
58	Andrew W. Kramer Boiling Water Reactors Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1958
68	Edward Teller with Allen Brown The Legacy of Hiroshima Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962
The View from Under a Green Eyeshade
4	Charles Komanoff Power Plant Cost Escalation: Nuclear and Coal Capital Costs, Regulation and Economics New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981	8TK1078.K648 1982
5	Wayne H. Sugai Nuclear Power and Ratepayer Protest: The Washington Public Power Supply Crisis Boulder: Westview Press, 1987
9	Department of Energy Nuclear Power Plant Cancellations: Causes, Costs, and Consequences, DOE/EIA-0392 Washington, 1983
9	Leonard G. Brooks & Homa Motamen (eds) The Economics of Nuclear Energy London: Chapman & Hall, 1984	[Brookes/Motamen-Scobie] 6HD9698.A2E24 1984 See 1999 ed.
20	Thorstein Veblen The Engineers and the Price System New York: Viking, 1954
94	A. C. Crouch & Richard Wilson Risk/Benefit Analysis Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1982
112	E. S. Savas Privatization Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1987
The Lessons of History
11	Ernest R. May The Lessons of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy New York: Oxford University Press, 1973
11	Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers New York: Free Press, 1986
11	Lloyd Etheredge Can Governments Learn?: American Foreign Policy and Central American Revolutions New York: Pergamon Press, 1985
11	Graham T. Allison Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis Boston: Little, Brown, 1968
11	Leslie H. Gelb with Richard K. Betts The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1979
19	David F. Nobel Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984
22	Richard G. Hewlett & Francis Duncan Atomic Shield, 1947-1952 University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969
22	Richard G. Hewlett & Francis Duncan Nuclear Navy, 1946-1962 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974
22	David Okrent Nuclear Reactor Safety: On the History of the Regulatory Process Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981
22	Richard T. Sylves The Nuclear Oracles: A Political History of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1977 Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987
34	Norman Polmar & Thomas B. Allen Rickover New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982
37	C. Allardice & E. Trapnell The Atomic Energy Commission New York: Praeger, 1974
123	Clifford Grobstein A Double Image of the Double Helix: The Recombinant DNA Controversy San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1979
123	Sheldon Krimsky Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982
147	James L. Regans & Robert W. Rycroft The Acid Rain Controversy Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
Developments Outside the U.S.
13	IAEA Nuclear Power Reactors in the World: IAEA-RDS-2/7 Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1987
13	Dorothy Nelkin & Michael Pollak The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981
15	Alain Touraine et. al. (transl. Peter Fawcett) Anti-Nuclear Protest: The Opposition to Nuclear Power in France New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983
16	Mary D. Davis The Military-Civilian Nuclear Link: A Guide to the French Nuclear Industry Boulder: Westview Press, 1988
17	Michael T. Hatch Politics and Nuclear Power: Energy Policy in Western Europe Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986
17	Henry R. Nau National Politics and International Technology: Nuclear Reactor Development in Western Europe Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974
17	Peter DeLeon Development and Diffusion of the Nuclear Power Reactor: A Comparative Analysis Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1979
17	Ezra F. Vogel Japan's New Middle Class Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968
18	Robert J. Smith & Richard K. Beardsley (eds) Japanese Culture: Its Development and Characteristics Chicago: Aldine, 1962
18	Robert E. Ward (ed) Political Development in Modern Japan Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968
18	David E. Apter & Nagayo Sawa Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984
18	Margaret A. McKean Environmental Protest and Citizens' Movements in Japan Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981
18	T. J. Pempel Policy and Politics in Japan: Creative Conservatism Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982
142	David R. Marples Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986
Bibliographies and Other General Reference Works
22	Jerry W. Mansfield The Nuclear Power Debate: A Guide to the Literature New York: Garland, 1984
22	Staff Nuclear America: A Historical Bibliography Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Information Services, 1984	ISBN 0874363608 Book: "Biography"

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