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Man-Made Catastrophes are the Result of Wanting Service Assurance

In: Quality Control Applications

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  • Dimitris N. Chorafas

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A vast social, economic, and material damage was created on March 11, 2011 by the 8.9° Richter scale earthquake and the 10-m tsunami which followed it. The aftermath was a disaster for the Daiichi nuclear reactors at Fukushima, which were part of a system designed and built to answer Japan’s growing need for electric power. Nuclear energy had provided 30% of Japan’s power needs. As 2011 came to a close, two-thirds of the reactors were still idle.

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  • Dimitris N. Chorafas, 2013. "Man-Made Catastrophes are the Result of Wanting Service Assurance," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: Quality Control Applications, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 81-101, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-1-4471-2966-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2966-0_5
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