Fukushima Report: Industry too ‘cozy’ with regulators
The Japanese Parliamentary report on the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster details the relationship between nuclear regulators and the nuclear industry in Japan. U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Chair Ronald Gilgenbach discusses the report and the future of nuclear power in Japan.
ABOUT THE PROFESSOR: Professor Gilgenbach is the Chair and and Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department. 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.
