Fukushima Report: Industry too 'cozy' with regulators | MconneX | Michigan Engineering

Brought to you by MconneX (www.engin.umich.edu UM Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Chair Ronald Gilgenbach discusses the Japanese Parliament's report on the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. The report details the relationship between nuclear regulators and the nuclear industry in Japan, and how the disaster "could and should have been foreseen and prevented." ABOUT THE PROFESSOR: Professor Gilgenbach (www-ners.engin.umich.edu is the Chair and and Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department (ners.engin.umich.edu He specializes in Pulsed-power-driven inertial confinement fusion research, intense electron beam dynamics, high power microwave generation, magneto-Rayleigh Taylor instability, plasma effects in pulsed accelerators. MORE: Watch additional MichEpedia videos or join the discussion at www.engin.umich.edu
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