Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520246837 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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In a spectacular coincidence, on March 28, 1979, less than two weeks after the movie came out, the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States occurred at Three Mile Island. Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. He also looks at the aftermath of the accident on the surrounding area, including studies of its long-term health effects on the population, providing a fascinating window onto the politics of nuclear power and an authoritative account of a critical event in recent American history.. In gripping prose, J. This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the Three Mile Island crisis. For five days, the citizens of central Pennsylvania and the entire world, amid growing alarm, followed the efforts of authorities to prevent the crippled plant from spewing dangerous quantities of radiation into the environment. Samuel Walker captures the high human drama surrounding the accident, sets it in the context of the heated debate over nuclear power in the seventies, and analyzes the social, technical, and political issues it raised. His superb account of those frightening and confusing days will clear up misconceptions
A Historical And Regulatory Perspective Of Three Mile Island "Three Mile Island" by J. Samuel Walker is a fine treatise on the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident in historical perspective. Walker deals less with the technical and physical aspects of the accident to take a more overarching view of the operations of TMI (and other nuclear plants) from a political, organizational, and managerial standpoint.Walker is the official historian of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and as such has spent . "Lots of words, little content" according to RI Reader. This book was highly unsatisfactory. One cannot deal with specific deficiencies and keep to length limits: this will be general. Walker implies he has no pro-nuclear bias. That is difficult to believe considering his employer, word choice and his criticizing nuclear opponents and excusing those in the nuclear industry. What this book is actually about? It seems to be about bureaucratic gyrations in reaction to the accident, NOT attem. Will become a valuable resource for future scholars. It is hard to believe but it has been some 25 years since America's worst nuclear accident took place. In "Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Persepctive" author J. Samuel Walker takes a look back at the tragic events that upset us all so much back in March of 1979. Eminently qualified to undertake this project, Walker succeeds in presenting all sides of this extremely complicated and highly controversial subject matte
regulation of this controversial power source, and a useful explanation of the design elements and operational techniques U.S. Thoroughly researched administrative history; includes photos, notes, and a useful essay on sources. All rights reserved. Mary CarrollCopyright © American Library Association. Walker, who has authored or coauthored three previous books on U.S. nuclear-power regulation during his 20 years at the NRC, opens this volume with three chapters of context: a description of the public debate over nuclear power before TMI, a survey of the history of U.S. Chapters 4 through 8 anatomize the events of March 28 through April 1, 1979, at Three Mile Island an