Confrontation at Seabrook. [Monograph]

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:5901166

Copulos, M R

The 2,000 demonstrators taking part in the 1977 occupation of the parking area at the construction site of the proposed Seabrook New Hampshire Nuclear Plant may determine the life styles of the majority of our people in the following decades. It appears that the purpose of the intervention has been to delay the start of construction of the nuclear plant to such a degree that the facility is abandoned. There has been no major change in design of the facility; the intervenors did not bring out issues concerning safety or environmental modifications. As the controversy continues, it is the ratepayers of New Hampshire and the construction workers who would have built the plant who bear the economic loss of the delay. Seabrook is scheduled to generate 72% of New Hampshire's power when it comes on line in 1985. The five chapters are: the Genesis of Seabrook; the site and facility; Seabrook and the regulatory morass; the cost of the delay; and the Clamshell Alliance. The Clamshell Alliance is a loosely knit coalition of about 30 to 40 New England antinuclear groups, their activities not merely aimed at Seabrook. They are really at odds with the American life style; they champion no economic growth. A concluding chapter, Seabrook in perspective, sorts out some valuable lessons that can be learned from the experience. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 5901166
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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HAZARDS
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HUMAN POPULATIONS
LEGAL ASPECTS
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