THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE
This paper looks at the Fukushima disaster from the perspective of resilience engineering, which replaces a search for causes with an understanding of how the system failed in its performance. Referring to the four resilience abilities of responding, monitoring, learning, and anticipating, the paper...
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| description | This paper looks at the Fukushima disaster from the perspective of resilience engineering, which replaces a search for causes with an understanding of how the system failed in its performance. Referring to the four resilience abilities of responding, monitoring, learning, and anticipating, the paper focuses on how inadequate engineering anticipation or risk assessment during the design, in combination with inadequate response capabilities, precipitated the disaster. One lesson is that systems such as nuclear power plants are complicated, not only in how they function during everyday or exceptional conditions, but also during their whole life cycle. System functions are intrinsically coupled synchronically and diachronically in ways that may affect the ability to respond to extreme conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c0f64c65c7304746a8b2e770bc3985472022-12-21T19:24:50ZengElsevierNuclear Engineering and Technology1738-57332013-02-01451132010.5516/NET.03.2011.078THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCEERIK HOLLNAGEL0YUSHI FUJITA1University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DenmarkTechnova Incorporation, Tokyo, JapanThis paper looks at the Fukushima disaster from the perspective of resilience engineering, which replaces a search for causes with an understanding of how the system failed in its performance. Referring to the four resilience abilities of responding, monitoring, learning, and anticipating, the paper focuses on how inadequate engineering anticipation or risk assessment during the design, in combination with inadequate response capabilities, precipitated the disaster. One lesson is that systems such as nuclear power plants are complicated, not only in how they function during everyday or exceptional conditions, but also during their whole life cycle. System functions are intrinsically coupled synchronically and diachronically in ways that may affect the ability to respond to extreme conditions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573315300024Fukushima DisasterSystemic FailureResilience EngineeringRisk AssessmentRequisite ImaginationFunctional Resonance Analysis Method |
| spellingShingle | ERIK HOLLNAGEL YUSHI FUJITA THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE Nuclear Engineering and Technology Fukushima Disaster Systemic Failure Resilience Engineering Risk Assessment Requisite Imagination Functional Resonance Analysis Method |
| title | THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE |
| title_full | THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE |
| title_fullStr | THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE |
| title_short | THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER – SYSTEMIC FAILURES AS THE LACK OF RESILIENCE |
| title_sort | fukushima disaster systemic failures as the lack of resilience |
| topic | Fukushima Disaster Systemic Failure Resilience Engineering Risk Assessment Requisite Imagination Functional Resonance Analysis Method |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573315300024 |
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