Controlling the Atom
Author: George T. Mazuzan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780520051829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George T. Mazuzan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780520051829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Samuel Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780520079137
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The late 1960s saw an extraordinary growth in the American nuclear industry: dozens of plants of unprecedented size were ordered throughout the country. Yet at the same time, public concern about the natural environment and suspicion of both government and industry increased dramatically. Containing the Atom is the first scholarly history of nuclear power regulation during those tumultuous years. J. Samuel Walker focuses on the activities of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the agency entrusted with the primary responsibility for the safety of nuclear power, and shows that from the beginning the AEC faced a paradox: it was charged with both promoting and controlling the nuclear power industry. Out of this paradox grew severe tensions, which Walker discusses in detail. His balanced evaluation of the issues and the positions taken by the AEC and others makes this study an invaluable resource for all those interested in the continuing controversies that surround nuclear energy. The late 1960s saw an extraordinary growth in the American nuclear industry: dozens of plants of unprecedented size were ordered throughout the country. Yet at the same time, public concern about the natural environment and suspicion of both government and industry increased dramatically. Containing the Atom is the first scholarly history of nuclear power regulation during those tumultuous years. J. Samuel Walker focuses on the activities of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the agency entrusted with the primary responsibility for the safety of nuclear power, and shows that from the beginning the AEC faced a paradox: it was charged with both promoting and controlling the nuclear power industry. Out of this paradox grew severe tensions, which Walker discusses in detail. His balanced evaluation of the issues and the positions taken by the AEC and others makes this study an invaluable resource for all those interested in the continuing controversies that surround nuclear energy.
Author: Gregory B. Jaczko
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1476755779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A shocking exposé from the most powerful insider in nuclear regulation about how the nuclear energy industry endangers our lives—and why Congress does nothing to stop it. Gregory Jaczko had never heard of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission when he arrived in Washington like a modern-day Mr. Smith. But, thanks to the determination of a powerful senator, he would soon find himself at the agency’s helm. A Birkenstocks-wearing physics PhD, Jaczko was unlike any chairman the agency had ever seen: he was driven by a passion for technology and a concern for public safety, with no ties to the industry and no agenda other than to ensure that his agency made the world a safer place. And so Jaczko witnessed what outsiders like him were never meant to see—an agency overpowered by the industry it was meant to regulate and a political system determined to keep it that way. After an emergency trip to Japan to help oversee the frantic response to the horrifying nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011, and witnessing the American nuclear industry’s refusal to make the changes he considered necessary to prevent an equally catastrophic event from occurring here, Jaczko started saying aloud what no one else had dared. Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator is a wake-up call to the dangers of lobbying, the importance of governmental regulation, and the failures of congressional oversight. But it is also a classic tale of an idealist on a mission whose misadventures in Washington are astounding, absurd, and sometimes even funny—and Jaczko tells the story with humor, self-deprecation, and, yes, occasional bursts of outrage. Above all, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator is a tale of confronting the truth about one of the most pressing public safety and environmental issues of our time: nuclear power will never be safe.
Author: Yasuhiro Suzuki
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-24
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9811507651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book reviews the active faults around nuclear power plants in Japan and recommends an optimal method of nuclear power regulation controlled by the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan. The active faults around nuclear power plants have been underestimated in Japan since the latter half of the 20th century. However, based on the lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, the book sheds light on why the risks of active faults were underestimated, and discusses the optimal scientific method of assessing those risks. Further, the author shares his experiences in the new standard for nuclear regulation creation team and in the active fault survey at the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan. This book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, academic and policy-makers, as well as non-experts interested in nuclear safety.
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher: IAEA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report contains guidance on the use of risk information by a regulatory body as part of an integrated decision-making process, covering risk informed decision making and risk informed regulation processes. It considers the advantages and potential safety benefits of risk informed regulation, as well as possible problem areas and expected difficulties.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 864
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Published: 1975-07
Total Pages: 1112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Public Affairs
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 8
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