Safe Enough?

"The focus on safety is a brilliant narrative choice that allows the text to quickly jump to the heart of many of the most contentious issues in nuclear power regulation and politics over the past fifty years."--Robert Lifset, author of Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism "I know of no other book that so authoritatively recounts how the very notion of safety was forged in the US nuclear industry over the decades."--Sonja D. Schmid, author of Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry "An authoritative insider account of the different technical approaches taken to assess the risks of nuclear power accidents. It also examines the disputes over the reliability and relevance of these approaches, and whether they could be implemented in the field by the industry."--John Krige, Regents Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology