Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

by Thomas R. Wellock

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520381157

ISBN13:9780520381155

Release Date:March 2021

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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Engineering History Technology

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