Nuclear Enterprise
High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors
Published on 1. September 2013
389 pages
978-0-8179-1526-1 (ISBN)
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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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George P. Shultz | Sidney D. Drell
The Nuclear Enterprise
High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors
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10/2012
Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
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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.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by SIDNEY D. DRELL, GEORGE P. SHULTZ, and STEVEN P. ANDREASEN
- Session I: Safety Issues-Nuclear Weapons
- 1 Designing and Building Nuclear Weapons to Meet High Safety Standards by SIDNEY D. DRELL
- 2 A Personal Account of Steps Toward Achieving Safer Nuclear Weapons in the U.S. Arsenal by ROBERT L. PEURIFOY
- 3 The Interplay Between Civilian and Military Nuclear Risk Assessment, and Sobering Lessons from Fukushima and the Space Shuttle by CHRISTOPHER STUBBS
- 4 Long-Range Effects of Nuclear Disasters by RAYMOND JEANLOZ
- 5 Naval Nuclear Power as a Model for Civilian Applications by DREW DEWALT
- Session II: Nuclear Reactor Safety
- 6 Lessons Learned of "Lessons Learned": Evolution in Nuclear Power Safety and Operations by EDWARD BLANDFORD and MICHAEL MAY
- 7 Nuclear Technology Development: Evolution or Gamble? by PER F. PETERSON and REGIS A. MATZIE
- 8 The Spent Fuel Problem by ROBERT J. BUDNITZ
- 9 International Issues Related to Nuclear Energy by WILLIAM F. MARTIN and BURTON RICHTER
- 10 Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power in China and India by JEREMY CARL
- Session III: Economic and Regulatory Issues
- 11 The Capture Theory of Regulation by GARY S. BECKER
- 12 The Federal Regulatory Process as a Constraint on Regulatory Capture by JOHN F. COGAN
- 13 A Comparison of Government Regulation of Risk in the Financial Ser vices and Nuclear Power Industries by JOHN B. TAYLOR and FRANK A. WOLAK
- 14 Discussion Notes on the Economics of Nuclear Energy by MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
- Session IV: Media and Public Policy
- 15 Media and Public Policy by JIM HOAGLAND
- 16 The Nuclear Credibility Gap: Three Crises by DAVID E. HOFFMAN
- Conference Agenda
- About the Authors
- Index
