Overview
- Provides concrete examples to help readers understand the active fault problem in nuclear safety
- Discusses new nuclear regulation
- Suggests that the existence of uncertainty of science is a key consideration in addressing nuclear safety
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yasuhiro Suzuki is a professor at the Disaster Mitigation Research Center of Nagoya University, Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1984 and received a doctoral degree in 1992. He joined Nagoya University as an assistant professor, and then moved to Aichi prefectural University and worked as a lecturer, and then an associate professor there. He was appointed to his current position in 2004. Yasuhiro Suzuki is currently a member of the Science Council of Japan and a member of the long-term evaluation subcommittee of the Earthquake Research Committee of Japan, and joined the regulation standard creation team of the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan (NRA) as an external expert. His main research interest is tectonic geomorphology research on active faults and tectonics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Active Faults and Nuclear Regulation
Book Subtitle: Background to Requirement Enforcement in Japan
Authors: Yasuhiro Suzuki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0765-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0764-9Published: 25 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0765-6Published: 24 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 76
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Nuclear Energy, Natural Hazards, Structural Geology