Nuclear Implosions

Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System is a 2008 book by Professor Daniel Pope which traces the history of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a public agency which undertook to build five large nuclear power plants, one of the most ambitious U.S. construction projects in the 1970s. By 1983, cost overruns and delays, along with a slowing of electricity demand growth, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, which is still the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history. The monumental court case which followed took nearly a decade to fully resolve.

See also

• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
• Nuclear power in the United States