Demanding democracy after Three Mile Island.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Gainesville, [Fla.] : University of Florida Press, 1991Description: xxi, 246 p. : ill., mapISBN:

081301073X
0813010985

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363.1799

Subject: The reactions of the residents of the areas surrounding Three Mile Island to the nuclear accident of 1979. The authors present unedited interviews conducted between 1979 and 1986. They analyze the transformation of community attitudes industry and government, from complacency and trust to the assertiveness and cynicism characterised by the NIMBY sydndrome. They argue that the mistrust and anger that followed the accident changed the way residents of Goldsboro and Newberry view government, technology and private enterprise.

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Bibliography: p. 237-240

Includes index

The reactions of the residents of the areas surrounding Three Mile Island to the nuclear accident of 1979. The authors present unedited interviews conducted between 1979 and 1986. They analyze the transformation of community attitudes industry and government, from complacency and trust to the assertiveness and cynicism characterised by the NIMBY sydndrome. They argue that the mistrust and anger that followed the accident changed the way residents of Goldsboro and Newberry view government, technology and private enterprise.

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