Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), 34

American way of life, 52, 72–73, 75–77, 100, 103–104, 210

Atomic Age, 1, 9–10, 14–15, 25–26, 28, 92, 94, 98–99, 114–116, 121–126, 130, 141, 143–144, 185, 190, 197, 210

Atomic Energy Act of 1946, 22, 33

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 33–34, 143

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 5, 21–23, 29–30, 32, 34–38, 41, 64–66, 83, 85–87, 92, 97, 113, 120, 124, 126, 133, 140–143, 145, 147–150, 156–157

Atomic Generation, 14, 25, 121, 185, 210

Atomic Industrial Forum (AIF), 37, 39, 139–140, 149

Atoms for Peace, 14, 33, 65, 69, 84, 86–89, 92–94, 96–97, 99, 108, 129, 132, 191, 196

Bandwagon Market, 10–12, 39–40, 42, 98–99, 126–128, 135, 137–140, 142, 148, 153, 165–166, 197

Bowie, Robert, 84

Boyer, Paul, 26

Bureau of Mines (BOM), 46–47, 151

Bush, George H. W., 104

Calder Hall, 96–97

Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 52, 153

Carter, Jimmy, 30, 51, 55–58, 101, 104–108, 131–134, 205

Cold War, 9–10, 12–14, 69–70, 72–75, 77–79, 81, 83, 90–91, 93, 98–100, 104–105, 112, 124, 132, 144, 191, 196–197

Compton, Arthur, 18–19

Confucius, 208

Consolidated Edison (Con Ed), 38, 142–145, 150

Dakota Gasification Company (DGC), 166, 169

Department of Energy (DOE), 5, 51–53, 55, 58, 62–63, 66, 138, 167, 169

Dresden-1, 38, 142, 145–146, 148

Duquesne Light Company, 37–38, 113–114, 179

Durkheim, Émile, 137

economy of scale (economies of scale), 40, 62, 113, 155, 202, 204–206

Edelman, Murray, 105–106, 154

Edison Electric Institute (EEI), 150, 183, 203

Einstein, Albert, 18, 20

Eisenhower, Dwight, 32–33, 47, 65, 77, 81–84, 86–90, 92, 97–98, 102, 107–108, 111–113, 132, 205

Electric Perspectives, 176–177, 185, 187, 192