| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. By John Wills. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xv + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Reviewing John Findlay's and Bruce Hevly's anthology Atomic West (Seattle, 1998) several years ago, historian John Wills commented "it is refreshing to find academics making their own trails to ground zero, and discovering that there is more to the nuclear landscape than traditional images of bomb craters in barren wastelands" (Environmental History, April 1999, p. 271). With Conservation Fallout, Wills blazes his own significant trail into the "Atomic West," crafting an accessible environmental and social history of California's controversial Diablo nuclear power plant, grounded in an extensive foundation of archival research and first-person interviews. The work revolves around three primary themes: California as a "sustained energy landscape," in which the Diablo power plant is but a nuclear chapter; the social construction of nature at Diablo Canyon; and changes the controversy wrought in the modern environmental movement.

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