Learning from a disaster : improving nuclear safety and security after Fukushima /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Blandford, Edward D. (Edward David), 1979- (Editor), Sagan, Scott Douglas (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Nuclear power plants > Japan > Safety measures. Nuclear power plants > Security measures > Japan. Nuclear power plants > Safety measures. Nuclear power plants > Security measures. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : learning from a man-made disaster / Scott D. Sagan
Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster : an overview / Kenji E. Kushida
The accident that could never happen : deluded by a design basis / Gregory D. Wyss
Security implications of the Fukushima accident / Kaoru Naito
Political leadership in nuclear emergency : institutional and structural constraints / Nobumasa Akiyama
Radiation protection by numbers : another "man-made disaster" / Toshihiro Higuchi
Encouraging transnational organizational learning / Kazuto Suzuki
Were Japan's nuclear plants uniquely vulnerable? / Phillip Lipscy, Kenji E. Kushida, and Trevor Incerti
Beyond Fukushima : enhancing nuclear safety and security in the 21st century / Edward D. Blandford and Michael M. May.