Arnold Windscale 1957

Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-1-349-10582-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection

The aim of this book is to set the 1957 Windscale accident in its historical context in the immediate post-war period and the early days of the Cold War, to describe the event and its consequences and to evaluate it from the vantage point of 1990.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnold, Lorna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cottrell, Sir Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Britain's atomic bomb; Windscale's origins; after Hurricane; the ninth anneal; damage assessment and damage control; the Penney Inquiry and the first white paper; three more white papers; causes - an accident waiting to happen; appraisals and reappraisals; postscript.