In the context of the
Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Acton was able to distill a succinct analysis which was widely reported.[4]
"Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic...This was a crisis that played out in real time on TV. Chernobyl did not."[5]
"The key question is whether we have correctly predicted the risk that a reactor could be hit by a disaster (natural or man-made) that is bigger than it is designed to withstand."[6]
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Acton,
OCLC/
WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 268 library holdings.[7]