Let's STOP SHOREHAM...
Poster
ca. 1980 (made)
ca. 1980 (made)
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Shoreham is the site of a failed nuclear power plant in New York, USA. Planning began in 1967 but once built, Shoreham quickly became a focal point for anti-nuclear activists. The costly project was officially abandoned in the late 1980s and the plant sits decommissioned and unused today.
Object details
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| Title | Let's STOP SHOREHAM... (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | printing |
| Brief description | Anti-nuclear power protest poster. Issued by S.H.A.D. Alliance. USA, ca. 1980. |
| Physical description | Image of a nuclear power plant. |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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| Summary | Shoreham is the site of a failed nuclear power plant in New York, USA. Planning began in 1967 but once built, Shoreham quickly became a focal point for anti-nuclear activists. The costly project was officially abandoned in the late 1980s and the plant sits decommissioned and unused today. |
| Bibliographic reference | McCaffrey, David. The Politics of Nuclear Power: A History of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, Neatherlands.1991.
ISBN 0-7923-1035-7 |
| Other number | LS.1225 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.341-2004 |
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| Record created | August 20, 2004 |
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