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- The profiteers : Bechtel and the men who built the world / by Denton, Sally,author.(CARDINAL)774387;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-408) and index.part one. We were ambassadors with bulldozers, 1872-1972: Go west! ; Follow the water ; Hobo jungle ; That hellhole ; Wartime socialists ; Patriot capitalists ; The largest American colony ; Going nuclear ; McConey island ; Weaving spiders ; Covert corporate collaboration ; The energy-industrial complex -- part two. The Bechtel cabinet 1973-1988: Bechtel's superstar ; Cap the knife ; The Arab boycott ; The Pacific republic ; The Bechtel babies ; The Reaganauts ; A world awash in plutonium ; It would be a terrible mess ; Ultimate insiders ; A witch's brew ; The territory of lies ; A tangled scheme -- part three. Dividing the spoils, 1989-2008: A deal with the devil ; The giant land of Bechtel ; Some found the company arrogant ; Global reach with a local touch ; A license to make money ; More powerful than the US Army ; The hydra-headed American giant ; Profiting from destruction -- part four. From muleskinner to sovereign state, 2009-2015: A convenient spy ; Privatize the apocalypse ; Nukes for profit ; The Buddhist and the bomb ; The four horsemen of the apocalypse ; The Captain Ahab of nuclear weapons ; A trial lawyer goes to battle ; The Exxon of space ; A nasty piece of work ; The kingdom of Bechtelistan.The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. 'Dad' Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to 'build the world,' from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Today Bechtel is one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, enriched and empowered by a long history of government contracts and the privatization of public works, made possible by an unprecedented revolving door between its San Francisco headquarters and Washington.- Subjects: Case studies.; Bechtel Group; Bechtel Group; Business ethics; Engineering firms;
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- Friends in high places : the Bechtel story : the most secret corporation and how it engineered the world / by McCartney, Laton.(CARDINAL)195156;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.; Bechtel, Stephen Davison, Jr., 1925-2021.; Bechtel Group.; Engineers; Businessmen;
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- Atomic days : the untold story of the most toxic place in America / by Frank, Joshua,Author(DLC)no2005068792;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242).Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real--an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl. The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing. Huge underground tanks, well past their life expectancy and full of boiling radioactive gunk, are leaking, infecting groundwater supplies and threatening the Columbia River. Whistleblowers, worried that the worst is ahead, are now speaking out, begging to be heard and hoping their pleas help bring attention to the dire situation at Hanford. Aside from a few feisty community groups and handful of Indigenous activists, there is very little public scrutiny of the clean-up process, which is managed by the Department of Energy and carried out by contractors with shoddy track records, like Bechtel. In the context of renewed support for atomic power as a means of combating climate change, Atomic Days provides a much-needed refutation of the myths of nuclear technology--from weapons to electricity--and shines a spotlight on the ravages of Hanford and its threat to communities, workers and the global environment.- Subjects: Radioactive waste sites; Hazardous waste site remediation; Nuclear weapons plants; Nuclear facilities;
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