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Safe enough? : a history of nuclear power and accident risk /

"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wellock, Thomas Raymond (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2021.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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