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100	1		_aSchmid, Sonja D., _d1970- _98099
245	1	0	_aProducing power : _bthe pre-Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear industry / _cSonja D. Schmid.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2015]
300			_axxxi, 362 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
490	0		_aInside technology
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Envisioning a nuclear-powered state -- Between atomic bombs and power plants: sharing organizational responsibilities -- Training nuclear experts: a workforce for the nuclear industry -- "May the atom be a worker, not a soldier!": A new history of soviet reactor design choices -- Chernobyl: from accident to sarcophagus -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Writing about Chernobyl after Fukushima.
520	0	0	_aThe Chernobyl disaster has been variously ascribed to human error, reactor design flaws, and industry mismanagement. Six former Chernobyl employees were convicted of criminal negligence; they defended themselves by pointing to reactor design issues. Other observers blamed the Soviet style of ideologically driven economic and industrial management. InProducing Power,Sonja Schmid draws on interviews with veterans of the Soviet nuclear industry and extensive research in Russian archives as she examines these alternate accounts. Rather than pursue one "definitive" explanation, she investigates how each of these narratives makes sense in its own way and demonstrates that each implies adherence to a particular set of ideas -- about high-risk technologies, human-machine interactions, organizational methods for ensuring safety and productivity, and even about the legitimacy of the Soviet state. She also shows how these attitudes shaped, and were shaped by, the Soviet nuclear industry from its very beginnings.Schmid explains that Soviet experts established nuclear power as a driving force of social, not just technical, progress. She examines the Soviet nuclear industry's dual origins in weapons and electrification programs, and she traces the emergence of nuclear power experts as a professional community. Schmid also fundamentally reassesses the design choices for nuclear power reactors in the shadow of the Cold War's arms race. Schmid's account helps us understand how and why a complex sociotechnical system broke down. Chernobyl, while unique and specific to the Soviet experience, can also provide valuable lessons for contemporary nuclear projects.
650		0	_aNuclear engineering _zSoviet Union _zHistory _y20th century. _98100
650		0	_aNuclear industry _zSoviet Union _zHistory _y20th century. _98101
650		0	_aNuclear power plants _zSoviet Union _zHistory _y20th century. _98102
650		0	_aNuclear energy _xResearch _zSoviet Union _xHistory _y20th century. _98103
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