The Fukushima disaster-systemic failures as the lack of resilience

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-20

  Hollnagel, Erik ^a   Fujita, Yushi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Technova Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima disaster; Functional resonance analysis method; Requisite imagination; Resilience engineering; Risk assessment; Systemic failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875896426     PISSN: 17385733     EISSN: 2234358X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5516/NET.03.2011.078     Document Type: Article

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