Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety Since Three Mile Island - Couverture rigide

Rees, Joseph V.

 
9780226706870: Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety Since Three Mile Island

Synopsis

The near meltdown in 1979 at Three Mile Island plunged the nuclear power industry into a crisis of confidence that threatened its existence. This study shows the reader how the industry managed to save itself through a transformation in the safety standards, operation and management of nuclear facilities in America. Rees provides a picture of the state of nuclear safety before disaster shook the industry into action. He documents the emergence of an industry group - the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations - and reveals how this industry organization became a major force behind improvements in nuclear safety. In the account of INPO's beginnings and its functions, industry self-regulation is examined. For Rees, what happened for the nuclear power industry suggests a newly developed form of regulation, communitarian regulation, that has implications for the role of private and public control of other industries.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Rees offers the first in-depth account of the extraordinary transformation in the safety standards, operations, and management of the nation's nuclear facilities spurred by the accident at Three Mile Island. Detailing the surprising success of self-regulation within the nuclear industry, his book reveals the possibilities for effective communitarian action.

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9780226706887: Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety since Three Mile Island

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226706885 ISBN 13 :  9780226706887
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1996
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