The Nuclear Enterprise: High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Mi

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A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media.

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Facing the risks and potentially deadly consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear powerNuclear energy can provide great benefits to society; in the form of nuclear weapons, however, it can cause death and destruction on an unparalleled scale. The challenge is how to deal with the catastrophic risk of the nuclear enterprise so as to preserve its positive elements and make economic sense. In this book, an expert group of contributors attempts to answer two key questions facing the nuclear enterprise: (1) What can and should be done to improve operations and public understanding of the risks and consequences of major incidents? (2) How can informed scientists, economists, and journalists interact more effectively in understanding and reporting to the public on the most important issues affecting risks, consequences, and costs?Drawn from a conference held at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on October 3–4, 2011, the papers presented in The Nuclear Enterprise were prepared by specialists on various aspects of this challenging topic, including technical safety, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media. It is their hope that the findings of the conference will contribute to discussion and then actions to better contain and eliminate growing global dangers.

Author Biography

George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in business. He lives in San Francisco.Sidney D. Drell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of theoretical physics emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Details ISBN0817915257 Short Title NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE Language English ISBN-10 0817915257 ISBN-13 9780817915254 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2012 Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Place of Publication Stanford Country of Publication United States Edited by Sidney D. Drell Illustrations Yes DEWEY 621.483 Author George P. Shultz Pages 388 Subtitle High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors AU Release Date 2012-10-01 NZ Release Date 2012-10-01 UK Release Date 2012-10-01 Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Publication Date 2012-09-30 Audience General US Release Date 2012-09-30 We've got this

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