Thomas Wellock
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American historian
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Thomas Wellock's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Wellock is the American historian for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Trained as both an engineer and a historian, he writes scholarly histories of the regulation of commercial nuclear energy. His most recent book is Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk with the University of California Press in 2021. A review in the New Yorker called Safe Enough? a "refreshingly candid account of how the government . . . approached the bottom-line question posed by the book's title."
Thomas Wellock's Published Works
Published Works
- Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 (1999) (43)
- Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements 1870 - 2000 (2007) (34)
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant (1998) (12)
- The Dickey Bird Scientists Take Charge: Science, Policy, and the Spotted Owl (2010) (9)
- Engineering Uncertainty and Bureaucratic Crisis at the Atomic Energy Commission, 1964–1973 (2012) (8)
- The Children of Chernobyl: Engineers and the Campaign for Safety in Soviet-designed Reactors in Central and Eastern Europe (2013) (7)
- A Figure of Merit: Quantifying the Probability of a Nuclear Reactor Accident (2017) (7)
- Meltdown at Three Mile Island (2001) (5)
- Fuel Cycle to Nowhere: U.S. Law and Policy on Nuclear Waste (2012) (4)
- Stick It in L.A.! Community Control and Nuclear Power in California's Central Valley (1997) (3)
- The Battle for Bodega Bay: The Sierra Club and Nuclear Power, 1958-1964 (1992) (2)
- Safe Enough? (2021) (1)
- Social Scientists in an Adversarial Environment: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Organizational Factors Research (2021) (1)
- In this issue (2009) (0)
- Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska. By Dean W. Kohlhoff. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. x, 166 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-295-98255-1.) (2004) (0)
- Nixon and the Environment. By J. Brooks Flippen. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. ix + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 (2001) (0)
- Review of Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos (2005) (0)
- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. By John Wills. (Reno, Nev.: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 244. $34.95.) (2008) (0)
- Between two worlds: Science, the environmental movement, and policy choice: by Lynton Keith Caldwell Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, xv + 224 pp, $44.50 (cloth) (1993) (0)
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