| Vindplaats: | B 4.106 |
| Titel: | Thorp: The Whitehall Nightmare |
| Auteur: | Crispin Aubrey |
| Samenvatting: | Over the last year (1993) a battle has raged between the nuclear industry and the environment movement. Sandwiched in between has been almost every Government department. The issue has been whether to allow British Nuclear Fuels to open the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield.
THORP was the subject of the 1977 Windscale Inquiry, which gave BNFL permission to build THORP. The justiffication at the time was the production of the plutonium and uranium, the money it would generate for the country through foreign contracts, and the need to service a hoped-for future generation of nuclear power plants. Crispin Aubrey traces the story from the original Inquiry to the present day, re-examines whether the justifications are valid in the 1990s, and the way in which the Government and its agencies are dealing with the dilemma. The issues range across the Departments of Environment and Trade and Industry, and the Ministries of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Defence, to the Foreign Office, Treasury and finally to the Prime Minister's and Cabinet Offices.
The decision on THORP has turned from a simple rubberstamping into a test of the Government's ability to reject old thinking and modernise Britain ready for the next century.
A Whitehall nightmare. |
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| Uitgever: | Jon Carpenter, Oxford |
| Jaar van uitgave: | 1993 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Aantal aanwezig: | 1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 1-897766-07-6 |
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| Ondertitel: | The Whitehall Nightmare |
| Foto's: | zwart wit foto's |
| Opmerkingen: | Bevat enkele grafieken en er is onderstreept met pen. foto's van o.a. Steve Bell |
| Aantal pagina's: | 86 |
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| Trefwoorden: | Thorp, energie, Groot Brittannië, plutonium, proliferatie, Sellafield, atoomindustrie, milieu, afvalopslag, |