
Normal Accidents
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Introduction 3
1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island 15
2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs--But Will Soon 32
3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe 62
4. Petrochemical Plants 101
5. Aircraft and Airways 123
6. Marine Accidents 170
7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes 232
8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA 256
9. Living with High-Risk Systems 304
Afterword 353
Postscript: The Y2K Problem 388
List of Acronyms 413
Notes 415
Bibliography 426
Index 441
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