BOOKS - Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
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Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
Author: Thomas R. Wellock
Year: March 23, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 64 MB
Language: English
Year: March 23, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 64 MB
Language: English
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple When is a reactor "safe enough" to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts sought a deceptively simple 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.
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