The Research Of Technological Disaster

There is a long history of concern of disasters, but more focused on the research of natural disasters. Early in 1950s, with the invention and testing of the first atomic in a valley in New Mexico, the focus on research shifts to technological disasters. Technological disasters are artificial accidents with negative influences on human and society created by technologies directly or indirectly. The characters of Technological disasters are tragedy, complexity and integration. Each technological disaster has an evolution process, through which there is an invisible disaster chain. Once the chain is molded, disasters are inevitable."disaster chain" developed by the interaction of multiple factors, including inadequate technology, large-scale technological systems, operators careless and the variation of natural environment, economic development pressures, the intensification of social conflict, etc. All of these can lead to a technical disaster.To avoid technological disasters or put them under control, The first task is to give a evaluation and an anticipation of new technologies, considering the social backgrounds of the research and development of technologies, weighing the pros and cons of technologies in a comprehensive way; Second, we should develop the technology system selectively, in particular the development of technology giant system, and to train high-quality operators to cut off disaster chain as well; Once again, if a disaster occurred, strengthen the rescues is also one of the methods to reduce disaster losses and to comfort people.