Privatisation And Financial Collapse In The Nuclear Industry The Origins And Causes Of The British Energy Crisis Of 2002
von: Simon Taylor
Routledge, 2008
ISBN: 9780203946275
Sprache: Englisch
273 Seiten, Download: 1574 KB
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Privatisation And Financial Collapse In The Nuclear Industry The Origins And Causes Of The British Energy Crisis Of 2002
| Contents | 8 | ||
| Figures | 10 | ||
| Tables | 12 | ||
| Preface | 13 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 16 | ||
| Part I The years of optimism (1945–1989) | 22 | ||
| 2 Influence of the bomb: Calder Hall and the Magnoxes (1945–1960) | 24 | ||
| 3 The AGRs and the reactor debates (1960–1978) | 36 | ||
| 4 The first privatisation attempt (1979–1989) | 51 | ||
| Part II A focused industry (1990–1995) | 64 | ||
| 5 Humiliation and transformation (1990–1994) | 66 | ||
| 6 The birth of British Energy (1995) | 86 | ||
| Part III Life in the private sector (1996–2002) | 94 | ||
| 7 Privatisation (1996) | 96 | ||
| 8 Hubris (1997–1999) | 110 | ||
| 9 Nemesis (1999–2001) | 129 | ||
| 10 Crisis (2001–2002) | 143 | ||
| Part IV Analysis: The causes of the crisis | 168 | ||
| 11 Financial strategy | 170 | ||
| 12 Corporate strategy | 191 | ||
| 13 The power price collapse | 204 | ||
| 14 The British reactor legacy | 214 | ||
| 15 The BNFL contracts | 221 | ||
| Part V Conclusions: The multiple causes of failure | 230 | ||
| 16 The international context: British uniqueness? | 232 | ||
| 17 Conclusion | 245 | ||
| Timeline of key events 1945–2006 | 253 | ||
| Glossary | 257 | ||
| Bibliography | 261 | ||
| Index | 269 |