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Containing the Atom. Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment 1963 - 1971 (1992)

Auteur	J.Samuel Walker
Datum	1992
Classificatie	3.01.0.00/31 (VS - ALGEMEEN)
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Preface

This book is the second in a series of volumes on the history of nuclear regulation 
sponsored by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The first volume, 
Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-1962, published 
by the University of California Press in 1984, examined the formative years of the 
efforts to promote the safety of the fledging nuclear power industry. This volume 
picks up the story at about the time that the nuclear industry experienced an 
unprecedented and unanticipated boom. The so-called "great bandwagon market" 
made an enormous impact on approaches to nuclear regulation. So too did the growth 
of environmentalism as a major public concern and political issue, which occurred at 
virtually the same time as the nuclear boom. This book investigates the interaction 
between those contemporaneous forces and the development of policies designed to 
ensure both the expansion and the safety of nuclear power.
Like Controlling the Atom, this sequel focuses on the United States Atomic Energy 
Commission (AEC), the agency that before its disbandment in 1975 was primarily 
responsible for nuclear power safety. Regulation was but one of the three major 
statutory functions that the AEC carried out. It devoted the bulk of its attention and 
resources to the other two: development and testing of nuclear weapons and 
promotion of the commercial use of nuclear power. This book is an effort to 
explain the AEC's regulatory positions and policies.

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