Emerging Demands for the Safety of Nuclear Power Operations: Challenge and Response

Nuclear power operations throughout the world face increasing international scrutiny from monitoring groups, government agencies, and the general public. Changing technologies, regulations, and public attitudes about this power source have given rise to new challenges and possible solutions within the industry.Emerging Demands for the Safety of Nuclear Power Operations: Challenge and Response is the third publication developed from a longstanding relationship between the Institute of Nuclear Safety System in Japan, concerned with immediate practical safety topics, and the Berlin University of Technology, which focuses on combining safety-related research with practical approaches to safety in high-hazard industries. It addresses technical, psychological, and social aspects of industrial safety that come under the scrutiny of scientists and engineers from an array of backgrounds.The book presents a cross-disciplinary, state-of-the-art look at the latest human factors developments in the nuclear industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector. Expert contributors explore issues in four areas: emerging challenges, analytic tools, response within the industry, and public response. Specialists in human factors, industrial engineering, work psychology, risk analysis, and safety technology will find this to be an informative resource on current issues regarding increased safety in nuclear power operations.

Kazunori Ato is Vice Director of the Institute of Social Research at the Institute of Nuclear Safety System, Inc. (INSS) Michael Baram is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law & Technology at Boston University School of Law Gerhard Becker is currently project manager at the Institute for Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection (IKS) of TUV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg Sue Cox is Dean of Lancaster University Management School, where she holds a Chair in Safety and Risk Management Atsuko Kitada has been working as a researcher at the Institute of Social Research of INSS since 1993 Feng-Liang Lee is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at National Chiao Tung University Maomi Makino is Senior Researcher and Senior Officer of the Safety Standards Division at the Incorporated Administrative Agency, the Japanese Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) Helen Rycraft works for British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) in the corporate Environment, Health, Safety & Quality (EHS&Q) department as a policy and organizational behavior manager Takeharu Sakaue since 1978 he has been working in the field of electric engineering and instrument and control engineering of the Mitsubishi PWR plant at the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Hiroshi Sakuda joined the Kansai Electric Power Company in 1980 Markus Schobel since 1998 he has worked at the Research Center Systems Safety at TU Berlin as researcher Ken-ichi Takano, is a senior research scientist at the Human Factors Research Center (HFC), CRIEPI Fumiya Tanabe, Ph.D., is a prime engineer at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) Tadashi Tsuge currently works as a senior operator at the Shin-Nagoya thermal power plants. Bjorn Wahlstrom has been employed at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) since 1971 Yukichi Yamaguchi, M.Sc., is a research engineer of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) Michio Yoshida, Ph.D., since 1998 he has been a Professor at Kumamoto University Naohiro Yoshiyama is an associate professor of social psychology at the Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture