Grace Halden

Three Mile Island

The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Power on March 28, 1979.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138917637
• ISBN-10: 113891763X
• Artikelnr.: 57052166

Autorenporträt

Grace Halden is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Nuclear Culture
Chapter One: Atoms for War: World War II and the Cultural History of Early
Nuclear Development
Chapter Two: Atoms for Peace: Nuclear Power, and the Influence of the
Long-1960s
Chapter Three: When Science and Society Collide: The Three Mile Island
Accident in Human Context
Chapter Four: Nuclear Reactions: Three Mile Island in Popular Culture
Chapter Five: Fears and Fallout: Three Mile Island's Legacy, Chernobyl, and
Fukushima