Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima

Scott D. Sagan

ISBN 10: 0804795614 / ISBN 13: 9780804795616

Published by Stanford University Press, 2016

About this Item

Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

Seller Inventory # V9780804795616

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804795614
• ISBN 13: 9780804795616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.