Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Blandford, Edward D. (Edward David), 1979- editor.
Sagan, Scott Douglas, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9780804797368
0804797366
9780804795616
0804795614
9780804797351
0804797358
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book-the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort-brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective. It explains the complex interactions between nuclear safety risks (the causes and consequences of accidents) and nuclear security risks (the causes and consequences of sabotage or terrorist attacks), exposing the possible vulnerabilities all countries may have if they fail to learn from this accident. The book further analyzes the lessons of Fukushima in comparative perspective, focusing on the politics of safety and emergency preparedness. It first compares the different policies and procedures adopted by various nuclear facilities in Japan and then discusses the lessons learned-and not learned-after major nuclear accidents and incidents in other countries in the past. The book's editors conclude that learning lessons across nations has proven to be very difficult, and they propose new policies to improve global learning after nuclear accidents or attacks.
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| Other form: | Print version: Learning from a disaster 9780804795616
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