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Title

Preparing for nuclear power plant accidents / edited by Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Roger E. Kasperson.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Golding, Dominic.
• Kasperson, Jeanne X.
• Kasperson, Roger E.

Description

xi, 537 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• This book appraises the current understanding of nuclear power plant accidents and the challenges posed to emergency planners. The contributors address the crucial need for real-time monitoring of both the development of the accident and the dispersion of radiation into the atmosphere.
• They also consider a broad range of other factors and approaches, including emergency action-level guidelines, organizational designs, effective emergency medical response, probabilistic risk analysis, public perceptions of nuclear accident risks, public responses to various warning systems, and the effects of high stress on the behavior of power plant workers.

Subjects

• Emergency management > Congresses
• Nuclear power plants > Safety measures > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Looking to the Next Accident / Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson -- 2. Potential Characteristics of Severe Reactor Accidents at Nuclear Plants / Gordon R. Thompson -- 3. Monitoring and Modelling Atmospheric Dispersion of Radioactivity Following a Reactor Accident / Gordon R. Thompson, Richard E. Sclove, Ulrike Fink and Peter Taylor -- 4. Safety Status of Nuclear Reactors and Classification of Emergency Action Levels / Gordon R. Thompson -- 5. The Use of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Emergency-Response Planning for Nuclear Power Plant Accidents / Robert L. Goble and Gordon R. Thompson -- 6. The Source-Term Issue / Daniel Hirsch -- 7. TMI Emergency Planning Project: Key Issues in Planning the Early Medical Response / Jennifer Leaning -- 8. Judgment and Decision Making in Emergency Situations / Paul Slovic -- 9. Organizational Decision-Making Theory and Technological Emergencies / Seth Tuler.
• 10. Designing Effective Decision Systems for Responding to Nuclear Plant Emergencies / Roger E. Kasperson, Dominic Golding and Seth Tuler -- 11. Pre-Emergency Information Programs for Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants / John H. Sorensen and Dennis S. Mileti -- 12. Warning Systems: A Social-Science Perspective / Dennis S. Mileti and John H. Sorensen -- 13. Public and Community Involvement in Emergency Planning and Management / C. P. Wolf -- 14. Public Concerns on Emergency Planning / Edward J. Walsh -- 15. Risk Perception and Public Response to Nuclear Emergencies / Paul Slovic -- 16. What Can Emergency Planning and Preparedness Accomplish? / Robert L. Goble -- 17. Emergency-Planning Lessons from the Accident at Chernobyl / Robert L. Goble and Christoph Hohenemser.

ISBN

0813385210 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

94026152

OCLC

• 30701839
• ocm30701839

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries