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"The book analyses the pros and cons of a spectrum of energies, ranging from petroleum, coal, gas to water, solar and wind energies as well as nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear incident in 2011. It maintains that we should look at nuclear energy from a rational point of view instead of being influenced by emotions or politicians' arguments"--
List of contents
Foreword 1 ix
by Arden Bement
Foreword 2 xiii
by Xu Kuangdi
Preface xvii
Introduction xxi
Part I The World after March 11, 2011 - Ripple Effect of the Fukushima Accident
1 Reliability and Nuclear Power 3
2 Some Flowers Fall, and Again Th ey Bloom 15
3 Different Responses Across the Waters 21
4 Aging and Reliability 27
5 Transparent Management Guarantees Nuclear Safety 31
6 The Need for Quality Control 39
7 Don't Let Gossip Affect the Safe Operation of Nuclear Power 45
Part II Environmental Protection, Occupational Safety and Innovation - A Spectrum of Energies
8 A Spectrum of Energy Sources 59
9 Facts about Background Radiation 67
10 Human Negligence of Occupational Safety Leads to Numerous Accidents 73
11 When Will Environmental Pollution End? 81
12 Non-nuclear Calamities Are Also Horrible 93
13 Where Can We Find Safe Energy Sources? 99
14 Pick up Our Share of the Energy Cost 111
15 In Search of Innovation in Formulating Energy Policy 121
16 Practice Makes Great 129
Appendix I 135
Appendix II 149
Postscript 157
Additional Reading Materials 169
Afterword 171
Index 173
About the author
Professor Way Kuo, a pioneer in reliability of electronics systems, is renowned for his work in systems reliability. He is a member of US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica, Taiwan, as well as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He serves as President of City University of Hong Kong and is Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE Transactions on Reliability. He has served at Texas A&M University and was on the senior management team of Oak Ridge National Laboratory when he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee.
