Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident
Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
ISBN: 978-1-349-10584-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
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.
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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.




