Simon (Cambridge University, UK) Taylor 
Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry 
The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002

A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse. It tells how the UK”s pioneering role in nuclear power led to bad technology choices, a badly flawed restructuring of the electricity industry and the end of government support for