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{{Short description|1998 book written by Thomas Wellock}}
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'''''Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978''''' is a book written by [[Thomas Wellock]].<ref>Thomas Raymond Wellock. ''Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978'', The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998, 333 pp.</ref><ref name=garb/> Reviewer Paula Garb has said:

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The book is rich with vivid verbal pictures and the passionate voices of participants on all sides of the controversy around the peaceful atom. It is based on interviews, documents from state and federal archives, and activist papers. Wellock brings to this project the expertise of a former engineer for civilian and navy nuclear reactors, a thorough archivist, and a sensitive interviewer.<ref name=garb>[http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_6/wellockvol6.htm  Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society]</ref>
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==See also==
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*[[Anti-nuclear movement in California]]
*[[Anti-nuclear protests in the United States]]
*[[List of books about nuclear issues]]
*[[List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California]]
*[[Nuclear power in the United States]]
*[[Nuclear whistleblowers]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20001011171247/http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/0444.htm ''Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978''] 
*[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3854/is_199904/ai_n8829288/print?tag=artBody;col1 Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation / Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 / Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant]

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