Abstract:The Fukushima accident of 2011 pulled von Hippel back into the reactor-safety world. He was invited to join a Congressionallymandated four-year study of the lessons that could be learned from the Fukushima accident to improve the safety of US nuclear plants. During that study he learned more about both a much worse accident that almost happened at Fukushima, and about how the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission had come to use "riskinformed regulation" as a way to avoid requiring costly safety upgrades opposed by… Show more
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