Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Scott D. Sagan ,  Edward D. Blandford
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780804797351

ISBN 10:   0804797358
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Learning from a Man-made Disaster  —Scott D. Sagan 1. Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: An Overview  —Kenji E. Kushida 2. The Accident That Could Never Happen: Deluded by a Design Basis  —Gregory D. Wyss 3. Security Implications of the Fukushima Accident  —Kaoru Naito 4. Political Leadership in Nuclear Emergency: Institutional and Structural Constraints  —Nobumasa Akiyama 5. Radiation Protection by Numbers: Another Man-made Disaster""  —Toshihiro Higuchi 6. Encouraging Transnational Organizational Learning  —Kazuto Suzuki 7. Were Japan's Nuclear Plants Uniquely Vulnerable?  —Phillip Lipscy, Kenji E. Kushida, and Trevor Incerti Conclusion: Beyond Fukushima: Enhancing Nuclear Safety and Security in the 21st Century  —Michael May and Edward Blandford"

Reviews

This book, edited by Blandford and Sagan, brings together experts from a variety of institutions and disciplines (including nuclear engineering, environmental history, political science, public policy, and risk assessment) from Japan and the United States to analyze the events leading up to and following this man-made catastrophe...This book provides an easy-to-read reference guide to the disaster which will be of interest to graduate students and advanced undergraduates seeking summaries about Fukushima. -- Daniel P. Aldrich * <i>Pacific Affairs</i> *

Author Information

Edward D. Blandford is Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He was formerly a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at CISAC and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University.

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