Windscale 1957

Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

L. Arnold (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2007 | 3rd ed. 2007
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-57317-8 (ISBN)

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In 1957 one of the two reactors built at Windscale was destroyed by fire, in the world's first major nuclear accident. This book describes the fire and what followed, and considers its causes, effects and political importance. It throws a revealing new light on an important event of fifty years ago and on questions of secrecy and responsibility.

LORNA ARNOLD OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History, UK. She is author of Britain and the H-Bomb (2001) and Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and their Aftermath.

Foreword; P.Hennessy & B.Cathcart 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.9.2007
Zusatzinfo	XXV, 236 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-230-57317-7 / 0230573177
ISBN-13	978-0-230-57317-8 / 9780230573178
Zustand	Neuware