Published 1990
| Version v1
Book
Why did the experts go wrong? 3. rev. ed.
Creators
Description
The accidents which happened in the recent past (the Challenger explosion, the Chernobyl reactor accident, the Admiral Nachimow-Piotr Wassew collision and the Zeebrugge ferry accident) show that an insufficient human rather than an insufficient technical reliability is responsible for the grave accidents and catastrophes which haunt the high-technology age. Catastrophes cannot be avoided unless exaggerated euphoric or anti-technology views are replaced by responsible human action based on the latest scientific and technical knowledge. (orig./BBR)
Abstract (German)
Die in die 3. bearbeitete Auflage neu aufgenommenen Vorfaelle aus der juengsten Vergangenheit (Challenger-Explosion, Reaktorhavarie in Tschernobyl, Schiffskollision 'Admiral Nachimow-Piotr Wassew', Faehrunglueck vor Zeebrugge) zeigen, dass im Zeitalter der Hochtechnologien nicht in erster Linie die Unzuverlaessigkeit der Technik, sondern die des Menschen fuer das Entstehen folgenschwerer Havarien und Katastrophen ausschlaggebend war. Weder uebertriebene Technikeuphorie noch Technikfeindlichkeit, sondern nur das verantwortungsbewusste Handeln auf der Grundlage neuester wissenschaftlich-technischer Erkenntnisse lassen Katastrophen zu immer selteneren Ereignissen werden. (orig./BBR)Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Accidents and catastrophes from the point of view of technical reliability
- Original title (German)
- Warum irrten die Experten?
- Original subtitle (German)
- Ungluecksfaelle und Katastrophen aus der Sicht technischer Zuverlaessigkeit.
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Verl. Technik.
- Imprint Place
- Berlin (Germany)
- ISBN
- 3-341-00545-5
- Imprint Pagination
- 248 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 25003373
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCIDENTS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SAFETY ENGINEERING
Optional Information
- Notes
- Translated from Russian: Stichijam ne podvlasten, Izdatel'stvo 'Zanie', Moscow (1980).