Safe enough? : (Record no. 80047)

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005 - DATE AND TIME
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008 - GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - ISBN
ISBN 9780520381155
020 ## - ISBN
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780520381162 (ebook)
040 ## - CATALOGUING LIBRARY
Original cataloging library Lsam
Modifying library Lsam
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041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code eng
100 1# - AUTHOR
Personal name Wellock, Thomas Raymond
245 10 - TITLE
Title Safe enough? :
Subtitle a history of nuclear power and accident risk /
Author, etc Thomas R. Wellock.
260 ## - PUBLICATION DATA
Place of publication Oakland, CA :
Publisher University of California Press,
Year 2021
300 ## - PAGES ETC
Pages xix, 353 pages :
Details illustrations
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "Published in 2021 by University of California Press in association with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)"--Title page verso.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note SIP2105
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
About the authors Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 8# - CONTENTS
Contents Preface -- When is a reactor safe? : the design basis accident -- The design basis in crisis -- Beyond the design basis : the reactor safety study -- Putting a number on "safe enough" -- Beyond design : toward risk-informed regulation -- Risk assessment beyond the NRC -- Risk-informed regulation and the Fukushima accident.
520 ## - SUMMARY
Summary, etc "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 risk assessment's value 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 society's understanding of the hazards posed by complex technologies, and what it takes to make them safe enough"--
650 #7 - KEYWORD
Keyword risak assessment
Subdivision nuclear accidents
650 #0 - KEYWORD
Keyword nuclear energy
Subdivision nuclear reactors
-- safety
-- security
Geographic subdivision USA
Subdivision history
942 ## - ITEM TYPE (KOHA)
Koha item type monograph
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