The MIT Press Rational Accidents book sku-2981858836
No rating yet(0 ratings)The MIT Press paperback Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies is listed in Ages 9-12 Kids' Books under sku-2981858836. John Downer examines how undetectable errors can remain in engineering tests and models used to assess safety-critical technologies, including nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms and deterrence infrastructures.
He uses civil aviation to examine how jetliners achieve apparent reliability and argues that its practices may not transfer readily to other technologies.
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