McCutcheon, Chuck  <br/><br/>
Nuclear reactions :  the politics of opening a radioactive waste disposal site  
Chuck McCutcheon 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Albuquerque   University of New Mexico Press,  c2002. 
 - xi, 231 p.   ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>"A way ... to make a buck" 1971-76: Carlsbad and WIPP -- "This is not a predictable situation" 1975-78: opposition emerges in New Mexico -- "An equal partner" 1978-81: Congress, New Mexico seek control -- "I'm not in the garbage business anymore" 1981-88: Idaho, "plutonium poker," and opening WIPP -- "I love WIPP!" 1989: an admiral at the helm -- "No discernible scientific basis" 1990-92: underground testing, Congress, and scientific doubt -- "A major break" 1993-96: canceling testing, preparing for disposal -- "This is indeed historic" 1997-2001: after fighting his own state, Richardson opens WIPP. 
<br/><br/> Marks the first effort to trace WIPP's (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) evolution 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826322098 (cloth) 0826322107 (pbk.) 9780826322104 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002006711 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)<br/>Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Nouveau-Mexique)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region.<br/>Radioactive waste disposal--Political aspects--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Carlsbad, New Mexico
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.72890973 McC   42