The costs of failure: a preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, 1907-2007
By Benjamin Sovacool. 2008
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A combination of technical complexity, tight coupling, speed, and human fallibility contribute to the unexpected failure of large-scale energy technologies. This study offers a preliminary assessment of the social and economic costs of major energy accidents from 1907 to 2007. It documents 279 incidents that have been responsible for $41 billion in property damage and 182,156 deaths. Such disasters highlight an often-ignored negative externality to energy production and use, and emphasize the need for further research.
Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Comparative risk assessment of severe accidents in the energy sector (2014, background): “, 2010), and bioethanol (Delzeit and Holm-Müller, 2009)), and comparative studies (e.g., Colli et al., 2009; Sovacool, 2008).”