Nuclear accident

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NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS is volume two of James Mahaffey's six-volume NUCLEAR POWER set published by Facts on File. Though the idea of nuclear power held great promise, the learning curve for the nuclear power industry was fairly steep and its safety track record over the past 60 years not what you'd called exemplary/5(4).

Expertly researched, scientific details given in a way that doesn't take a degree in nuclear physics to understand, and more importantly factual. This book avoids the often-used 'lets make nuclear power out to be dangerous to all humans!' Trap that many authors of Nuclear accident book accidents fall into in order to increase by: 4.

Accidents Will Happen: The Case Against Nuclear Power (Perennial library ; P ) by Environmental Action Foundation., Lee Stephenson, George R. Zachar and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident is forcing us to rethink our electric power industry with regard to what alternative power sources are available and whether we can abandon the nuclear industry altogether.

This chapter reviews the history of why we went with nuclear power, what alternatives we have at this point, and if they are feasible. Workers, inin a Chernobyl control room still used as an office for those cleaning the power plant.

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Colby Award, given for an outstanding book on military or intelligence history. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective is a scholarly history of the Three Mile Island accident, written by J. Samuel Walker and published in Walker is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's historian and his book is the first detailed historical analysis since the accident.

The accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station in Pennsylvania was Author: J. Samuel Walker. Fukushima wasn’t a “Japanese” nuclear accident—it was an accident that happened to occur in Japan.

In fact, if exposed to similarly complex challenges, all 99 operating reactors in the United States would likely have similar outcomes. Worse, Japanese and U.S. regulators share a mindset that severe, supposedly “low probability” accidents are unlikely and not worth the cost and time.

This is a solid set of anecdotes about atomic accidents. Because nuclear power and nuclear bombs are so fantastical and have a semi-mystical quality to them, these sorts of anecdotes tend to be told over and over again in popular culture.

This book digs deeper and contains a bunch of nuclear-related accidents I had never heard of before/5. Thyroid Cancer and Nuclear Accidents: Long-Term Aftereffects of Chernobyl and Fukushima discusses the radiobiological effects of the release of radioiodine from two nuclear power plant accidents and appropriate interpretation of the results of thyroid ultrasound examination.

The book pulls together expert opinion on radiation related thyroid. This is an interesting book about a little known nuclear accident (the first in U.S history) at the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory (then known as INL) back in Since this facility is located 40 miles from where I live in Idaho Falls, you would think I would have been aware of the accident/5.

The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant that resulted from the Great East Japan Earthquake of Mainvolved the dispersion and spread of radioactive materials, and thus from both the political and economic perspectives, the accident became not only an issue for Japan itself.

More about the how Chernobyl affected USSR I buy this book expecting to learn more about the tragedy and the causes of it. I realize in life, it is hard to paint one particular cause as the main entity to any accident be it an ever lasting nuclear or a small fender bender on the road.

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Colby Award, given for an outstanding book on military or intelligence history. Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors. Chernobyl Accident. Fukushima Daiichi Accident. Liability for Nuclear Damage.

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The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to /5(40).