Controlling the Atom
Author | : George T. Mazuzan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520051829 |
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Author | : George T. Mazuzan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520051829 |
Author | : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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Release | : 1999* |
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Author | : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Publisher | : Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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Author | : United States Government Printing Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1999-02-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780160630118 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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Author | : J. Samuel Walker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520079137 |
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 and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1476755787 |
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 | : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Nuclear power plants |
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