Kuo Critical Reflections on Nuclear and Renewable Energy

Environmental Protection and Safety in the Wake of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-77345-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

The Fukushima nuclear incident made people ponder and questionnuclear safety again, resulting in decisions by certain countriesto phase out nuclear power completely. Is this the right decision?Are there better ways to deal with this important issue of the 21thcentury?
The book analyses the pros and cons of a spectrum of energies,ranging from petroleum, coal, gas to water, solar and wind energiesas well as nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclearincident in 2011. It maintains that we should look at nuclearenergy from a rational point of view instead of being influenced byemotions or politicians' arguments. The book alsoexamines policies that concern science and technology, energyresources, environmental protection and occupational safety,emphasizing the need to deepen the general populace'sunderstanding of the concept of reliability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuo, Way

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword 1 ix
by Arden Bement
Foreword 2 xiii
by Xu Kuangdi
Preface xvii
Introduction xxi
Part I The World after March 11, 2011 -- Ripple Effectof the Fukushima Accident
1 Reliability and Nuclear Power 3
2 Some Flowers Fall, and Again Th ey Bloom 15
3 Different Responses Across the Waters 21
4 Aging and Reliability 27
5 Transparent Management Guarantees Nuclear Safety 31
6 The Need for Quality Control 39
7 Don't Let Gossip Affect the Safe Operation of Nuclear Power45
Part II Environmental Protection, Occupational Safety andInnovation -- A Spectrum of Energies
8 A Spectrum of Energy Sources 59
9 Facts about Background Radiation 67
10 Human Negligence of Occupational Safety Leads to NumerousAccidents 73
11 When Will Environmental Pollution End? 81
12 Non-nuclear Calamities Are Also Horrible 93
13 Where Can We Find Safe Energy Sources? 99
14 Pick up Our Share of the Energy Cost 111
15 In Search of Innovation in Formulating Energy Policy 121
16 Practice Makes Great 129
Appendix I 135
Appendix II 149
Postscript 157
Additional Reading Materials 169
Afterword 171
Index 173

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Way Kuo, a pioneer in reliability ofelectronics systems, is renowned for his work in systemsreliability. He is a member of US National Academy of Engineeringand Academia Sinica, Taiwan, as well as a foreign member of theChinese Academy of Engineering. He serves as President of CityUniversity of Hong Kong and is Editor-in-Chief of IEEETransactions on Reliability. He has served at Texas A&MUniversity and was on the senior management team of Oak RidgeNational Laboratory when he served as Dean of Engineering at theUniversity of Tennessee.