Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident PDF
Preview Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://www.nap.edu/21874 SHARE Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 DETAILS 238 pages | 6 x 9 | PAPERBACK ISBN 978-0-309-38888-7 | DOI: 10.17226/21874 AUTHORS Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear BUY THIS BOOK Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants; Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board Division on Earth and Life Studies Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 This activity was supported by Grant No. NRC-HQ-12-G-03-0002 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization or agency that provided support for the project. International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-309-38888-7 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-38888-0 Digital Object Identifier: 10.17226/21874 Cover images: (Front) Satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Sta- tion taken on March 14, 2011, while the accident was still in progress. The Unit 1 reactor building (lower-left corner of image) was damaged by a hydrogen explosion at 15:36 (3:36 P.M.) Japan Standard Time on March 12. The Unit 3 reactor build- ing (building with steam plume near center of image) was damaged by a hydrogen explosion at 11:01 the day the image was recorded. The Unit 4 reactor building, which is still intact in this image, would be damaged by a hydrogen explosion at 06:14 the next day (March 15). (Back) Satellite image of the harbor-front of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station showing extensive damage from the tsu- nami. Also shown is a seismogram of the Great East Japan Earthquake recorded at the Oshika K-Net Station (MYG011) in Miyagi Prefecture. Satellite image courtesy of DigitalGlobe©2014. Additional copies of this report are available for sale from the National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Keck 360, Washington, DC 20001; (800) 624-6242 or (202) 334-3313; http://www.nap.edu. Copyright 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Suggested citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2. Washington, DC: The National Acad- emies Press. doi: 10.17226/21874. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 The National Academy of Sciences was established in 1863 by an Act of Congress, signed by President Lincoln, as a private, nongovernmental institution to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. Members are elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to research. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences to bring the practices of engineering to advising the nation. Members are elected by their peers for extraordinary contri- butions to engineering. Dr. C. D. Mote, Jr., is president. The National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) was established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences to advise the nation on medical and health issues. Members are elected by their peers for distinguished contributions to medicine and health. Dr. Victor J. Dzau is president. The three Academies work together as the National Academies of Sciences, Engi- neering, and Medicine to provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation and conduct other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The Academies also encourage education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public under- standing in matters of science, engineering, and medicine. Learn more about the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine at www.national-academies.org. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 COMMITTEE ON LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT FOR IMPROVING SAFETY AND SECURITY OF U.S. NUCLEAR PLANTS JOSEPH E. SHEPHERD, Chair, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena ROBERT A. BARI, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York PERCY M. BEARD, JR., Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (retired), Atlanta, Georgia1 JAN BEYEA, Consulting in the Public Interest, Lambertville, New Jersey M. QUINN BREWSTER, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2 MICHAEL L. CORRADINI, University of Wisconsin–Madison VIJAY K. DHIR, University of California, Los Angeles MICHAEL W. GOLAY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge BARBARA L. HAMRICK, University of California, Irvine Medical Center PAUL A. LOCKE, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland THOMAS G. MOSER, Independent Consultant, Wilmington, North Carolina ARTHUR T. MOTTA, Pennsylvania State University, University Park JOHN A. ORCUTT, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla EMILIE M. ROTH, Roth Cognitive Engineering, Menlo Park, California ELIZABETH Q. TEN EYCK, ETE Consulting, Inc., Great Falls, Virginia FRANK N. VON HIPPEL, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey LORING A. WYLLIE, JR., Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco, California Staff KEVIN D. CROWLEY, Study Director TONI GREENLEAF, Administrative and Financial Associate DARLENE GROS, Senior Program Assistant 1 Resigned from committee on January 7, 2015. 2 Resigned from committee on February 6, 2015. v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 NUCLEAR AND RADIATION STUDIES BOARD ROBERT C. DYNES, Chair, University of California, San Diego BARBARA J. MCNEIL, Vice Chair, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts DAVID J. BRENNER, Columbia University, New York MARGARET S. Y. CHU, M.S. Chu & Associates, LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico MICHAEL L. CORRADINI, University of Wisconsin–Madison TISSA H. ILLANGASEKARE, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CAROL M. JANTZEN, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina MARTHA S. LINET, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland FRED A. METTLER, JR., New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque NANCY JO NICHOLAS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico DANIEL O. STRAM, University of Southern California, Los Angeles SERGEY V. YUDINTSEV, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Staff KEVIN D. CROWLEY, Director JENNIFER HEIMBERG, Senior Program Officer OURANIA KOSTI, Senior Program Officer TONI GREENLEAF, Administrative and Financial Associate LAURA D. LLANOS, Administrative and Financial Associate DARLENE GROS, Senior Program Assistant vii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants: Phase 2 Acknowledgments The successful completion of this study would not have been possible without the cooperation and assistance of many organizations and individuals. The committee would especially like to acknowledge and thank the following organizations and individuals for their support: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Eric Bowman, Greg B owman, Paul Clifford, Donald Helton, Steven Jones, Christiana Lui, Jose Pires, Bill Reckley, Susan Stuchell, Glenn Tuttle, Jennifer Uhle, S andra Wastler, Ralph Way, and Kevin Witt. Mr. Witt ably served as the agency’s liaison to the committee. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO): Kenji Tateiwa and Takashi Hara of TEPCO’s Washington, DC, office. Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN): Franck Bigot, Laurent Gilloteau, Trégourès Nicolas, and Axelle Portier. Japanese Embassy in the United States: Takashi Toyota. Nuclear Energy Institute: Steven Kraft, David Kline, and Kristopher Cummings. ix Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Description:The list of books you might like
