Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry

The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002

Simon Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-54200-5 (ISBN)

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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 nuclear power.

In this volume Simon Taylor has combined interviews with former executives, regulators and analysts with his own unique insight into the nuclear industry to provide an analysis of the origins of the crisis and the financial and corporate strategies used by British Energy plc.

Arguing that the stock market was a major factor in the company's collapse by misunderstanding its finances, over-valuing the shares and giving wrong signals to management and that the government policy of trying to put all responsibility for nuclear liabilities in the hands of the private sector was neither credible nor realistic. The book concludes that failure was not inevitable but resulted from a mixture of internal and external causes that casts doubt on the policy of combining a wholly nuclear generator with liberalized power markets.

This book will be of great interest to students engaged with the history of nuclear power in the UK, privatization, regulation and financial and corporate strategy, as well as experts, policy makers and strategists in the field.

Simon Taylor is Management Practice Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge, UK

Part 1: The Years of Optimism (1945-89) 2. Influence of the Bomb: Calder Hall and the Magnoxes (1945-1960) 3. The AGRs and the Reactor Debates (1960-78) 4. The First Privatisation Attempt (1979-89) Part 2: A Focused Industry (1990-1995) 5. Humiliation and Transformation (1990-1994) 6. The Birth of British Energy (1995) Part 3: Life in the Private Sector (1996-2002) 7. Privatisation (1996) 8. Hubris (1997-1999) 9. Nemesis (1999-2001) 10. Crisis (2001-2002) Part 4: Analysis – The Causes of the Crisis 11. Financial Strategy 12. Corporate Strategy 13. The Power Price Collapse 14. The British Reactor Legacy 15. The BNFL Contracts Part 5: Conclusions – The Multiple Causes of Failure 16. The International Context: British Uniqueness? 17. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.6.2012
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
ISBN-10	0-415-54200-6 / 0415542006
ISBN-13	978-0-415-54200-5 / 9780415542005
Zustand	Neuware