Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780520381155
UPC: 9780520381155
ISBN: 9780520381155
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Safe Enough?: a History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 680 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Thomas R. Wellock
Subject Area: Social Psychology, Electrical Engineering
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
