Atomic Energy & the Safety Controversy
Author : Ira Freedman
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Ira Freedman
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : James H. Rust
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1483285448
A concise and current treatment of the subject of nuclear power safety, this work addresses itself to such issues of public concern as: radioactivity in routine effluents and its effect on human health and the environment, serious reactor accidents and their consequences, transportation accidents involving radioactive waste, the disposal of radioactive waste, particularly high-level wastes, and the possible theft of special nuclear materials and their fabrication into a weapon by terrorists. The implementation of the defense-in-depth concept of nuclear power safety is also discussed. Of interest to all undergraduate and graduate students of nuclear engineering, this work assumes a basic understanding of scientific and engineering principles and some familiarity with nuclear power reactors
Author : Thomas R. Wellock
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520381157
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor “safe enough” to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts sought a deceptively simple answer: an estimate that the odds of a major accident were, literally, a million to one. Far from simple, this search to quantify accident risk proved to be a tremendously complex and controversial endeavor, one that altered the very notion of safety in nuclear power and beyond. Safe Enough? is the first history to trace these contentious efforts, following the Atomic Energy Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as their experts experimented with tools to quantify accident risk for use in regulation and to persuade the public of nuclear power’s safety. The intense conflict over the value of risk assessment offers a window on the history of the nuclear safety debate and the beliefs of its advocates and opponents. Across seven decades and the accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the quantification of risk has transformed both society’s understanding of the hazards posed by complex technologies and what it takes to make them safe enough.
Author : Barton C. Hacker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher :
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Nuclear power plants
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth S. Rolph
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher :
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Nuclear power plants
ISBN :
Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Discusses key issues in safety culture and practical matters such as the assessment of personal contributions to the enhancement of safety culture. It complements Safety Series No. 75-INSAG-4, Safety Culture (1991) and INSAG Series No. 13, Management of Operational Safety in Nuclear Power Plants.
Author : Jack Devanney
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2020-11-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781098308964
This book is a collection of essays focused on the Gordian knot of our time, the closely coupled problems of energy poverty for billions of humans, and global warming for all humans. The central thesis of the book in that nuclear power is not only the only solution, it is a highly desirable solution, cheaper, safer, less intrusive on nature than all the alternatives.
Author : Peter T. Faulkner
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :