Preface<br > "The reactur is critical."<br >This is a book about people.<br > It is also about power, and not just about the power nuclear fission<br >produces at an electrical generating station. It is about political power as<br >well and the power derived from status and access and information and<br >money.<br > And it is about fear Fear of radiation and accidental catastrophe, of<br >course. But also fear of losing an opportunity, a job, a reputation, an<br >investment; of losing a struggle of such duration that the rivalry itself<br >sometimes obscured its causes; of losing tile arnenities of a pleasant and<br >familiar environment; of losing control of communities, neighbor-<br >hoods, and lives.<br > To stake too pretentious a claim, it is also about the United States in<br >the last third of the twentieth century, as revealed in the effort to<br >construct, license, and operate a nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New<br >Hampshire. That prolonged, expensive, sometimes bitter battle was an<br >epic from which few emerged with honor and none with victor) . Man-<br >agement performed ineptly every managerial task; government could<br >not furnish prompt or persuasive resolutions of disputes and therefore<br >governed badly; opponents could not prevent results they predicted<br >would be disastrous. Fbr the uninvolved public, it was a tale of unre-<br >lieved incompetence,<br > Unskilled management, bad government, failed grass-roots initia-<br >tives, an apathetic public, and pervasive incompetence were not unique<br >to coastal New Hampshire or to the nuclear industry in these years. In .<br >some respects, the unfinished and rusting second Seabrook reactor, an<br >appropriate symbol of the nation s nuclear policy, migbt have repre-<br >sented other blighted national aspirations equally well: tbe balanced<br >
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