Shouldering risks : the culture of control in the nuclear power industry / Constance Perin.
Shouldering risks : the culture of control in the nuclear power industry / Constance Perin.
Shouldering risks : the culture of control in the nuclear power industry / Constance Perin.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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N621.4835/78
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English
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p. cm.
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Ch. 1. Complexities in control -- Ch. 2. Arrow station : a leaking valve in containment -- Ch. 3. Bowie Station : a reactor trip and a security lapse -- Ch. 4. Charles station : transformer trouble -- Ch. 5. Logics of control -- Ch. 6. Intellectual capital for regulation and self-regulation -- App....
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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New Jersey
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c2005.
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"At the world's some 440 nuclear power plants, experts continually monitor their wide safety margins, and at signs of trouble seek out the sources and recommend changes. Too often for their comfort, and for ours, a subsequent problem reveals that these changes were ineffective or never made. Why this self-defeating pattern? What in this technology'...
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Shouldering risks : the culture of control in the nuclear power industry / Constance Perin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2005.
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N621.4835/78
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74VKp0DVVReX
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0691070032 (alk. paper)
9780691070032 (alk. paper)
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621.4835
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991019433579702626
