ORIGINS OF A HUGE NUCLEAR FLAP

摘要

CHRISTOPHER HARTZ IS AN EARLY EYEWITNESS TO THE TWIN PROJECTS THAT PUNCTURED THE HOPE FOR A "NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE" AND DROVE WESTINGHOUSE INTO BANKRUPTCY. For 14 tumultuous months, from late 2009 to 2011, Hartz worked for Shaw Nuclear Services, the main subcontractor to Westinghouse on its new Georgia and South Carolina reactor projects. With the South Carolina project now canceled and the Georgia project billions of dollars over budget and years late, Hartz's account of what he saw and experienced in Shaw Nuclear's Charlotte, N.C., office provides a new channel for understanding the traumatic infancy of a slow-developing disaster.