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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804797351
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221393970
Product Key Features
Author
Edward D. Blandford, Scott D. Sagan
Publication Name
Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, Politics
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Scott D. Sagan, Edward D. Blandford
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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