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

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Group Author: Blandford, Edward D. (Edward David), 1979- (Editor); Sagan, Scott Douglas. (Editor)
Published: Stanford University Press,
Publisher Address: Stanford, California :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Stanford security studies
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Carrier Form: xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780804797351 (paperback : alkaline paper) :
0804797358 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780804795616 (hardback : alkaline paper)
0804795614 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9780804797368 (ebook)
0804797366 (ebook)
Index Number: TK1365
CLC: F431.362
Call Number: F431.362/L438
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.