"What-Me Worry?""Why So Serious?": A Personal View on the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Accidents

Risk Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1444-1450

  Gallucci, Raymond ^a  

^a U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Nuclear power; Risk perspective; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PRECURSORS; CHERNOBYL; CORE DAMAGE; CORE DAMAGE ACCIDENTS; ELECTRICAL POWER; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY; RADIOACTIVE RELEASE; RISK PERSPECTIVE; UKRAINE;

EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ELECTRICAL POWER; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POWER GENERATION; PROBABILITY; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; RISK FACTOR; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY; TSUNAMI;

ARTICLE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; INTERNATIONALITY; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

CHERNOBYL; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KIEV [UKRAINE]; TOHOKU; UKRAINE;

EID: 84865304220     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01780.x     Document Type: Article

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