McCutcheon, Chuck
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.
"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.
Marks the first effort to trace WIPP's (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) evolution
9780826322098 (cloth) 0826322107 (pbk.) 9780826322104 (pbk.)
2002006711
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Nouveau-Mexique)
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region.
Radioactive waste disposal--Political aspects--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
363.72890973 McC 42
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.
"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.
Marks the first effort to trace WIPP's (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) evolution
9780826322098 (cloth) 0826322107 (pbk.) 9780826322104 (pbk.)
2002006711
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Nouveau-Mexique)
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region.
Radioactive waste disposal--Political aspects--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
363.72890973 McC 42