Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 From fission to fusion: professionalization and politics in twentieth-century America
- 2 The promise of the proministrative state: nuclear experts and national politics, 1945–1947
- 3 Forging an iron triangle: the politics of verisimilitude
- 4 Triangulating demand: the Atomic Energy Commission's first decade of commercialization
- 5 The centrifugal push of expertise: reactor safety, 1947–1960
- 6 The magnetic pull of professional disciplines, issue networks, and local government
- 7 Nuclear experts on top, not on tap: mainstreaming expertise, 1957–1970
- 8 Nuclear experts everywhere: the challenge to nuclear power, 1960–1975
- 9 Conclusion: harnessing political chain reactions
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 From fission to fusion: professionalization and politics in twentieth-century America
- 2 The promise of the proministrative state: nuclear experts and national politics, 1945–1947
- 3 Forging an iron triangle: the politics of verisimilitude
- 4 Triangulating demand: the Atomic Energy Commission's first decade of commercialization
- 5 The centrifugal push of expertise: reactor safety, 1947–1960
- 6 The magnetic pull of professional disciplines, issue networks, and local government
- 7 Nuclear experts on top, not on tap: mainstreaming expertise, 1957–1970
- 8 Nuclear experts everywhere: the challenge to nuclear power, 1960–1975
- 9 Conclusion: harnessing political chain reactions
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Chain ReactionExpert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945–1975, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991