[PDF.97tf] The Atom and the Fault: Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power (MIT Press)

The Atom and the Fault: Experts, Earthquakes, and Nuclear Power (MIT Press)

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Unstable Ground, Other Hazards of California|By A Customer|This is a detailed, well presented, superbly argued and absolutely fascinating account of one episode in the continuing interaction between science, technology, the law and the public interest. It once and for all puts to rest the idea that science uses a well defined and unambiguous method and speaks with a single vo| ||This is a fascinating personal account of the seismic safety wars in California, by a participant. It certainly makes the case that the players are not always as objective as they pretend to be. (H. W. Lewis, Professor of Physics, University of California)

With wit and thoughtful compassion, Richard Meehan presents one of the most perplexing of contemporary moral predicaments, one that arises in every attempt to assess potentially hazardous technologies. He focuses on the longrunning controversy over suspected earthquake faults near the nation's first corporately owned nuclear test reactor at Vallecitos, California, and uses this account of "the politics of expertise" to probe the nature of scientific truth and its rela...

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