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"A gripping, suspenseful page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews) with a "fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller" (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, with award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan to give us the first definitive account of the 2011 disaster that led to the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.
Four years have passed since the day the world watched in horror as an earthquake large enough to shift the Earth's axis by several inches sent a massive tsunami toward the Japanese coast and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the reactors' safety systems to fail and explosions to reduce concrete and steel buildings to rubble. Even as the consequences of the 2011 disaster continue to exact their terrible price on the people of Japan and on the world, Fukushima addresses the grim questions at the heart of the nuclear debate: could a similar catastrophe happen again, andāmost important of allāhow can such a crisis be averted?
Four years have passed since the day the world watched in horror as an earthquake large enough to shift the Earth's axis by several inches sent a massive tsunami toward the Japanese coast and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the reactors' safety systems to fail and explosions to reduce concrete and steel buildings to rubble. Even as the consequences of the 2011 disaster continue to exact their terrible price on the people of Japan and on the world, Fukushima addresses the grim questions at the heart of the nuclear debate: could a similar catastrophe happen again, andāmost important of allāhow can such a crisis be averted?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Authors
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition
- 1. March 11, 2011: āA Situation That We Had Never Imaginedā
- 2. March 12, 2011: āThis May Get Really Ugly . . .ā
- 3. March 12 Through 14, 2011: āWhat the Hell Is Going On?ā
- 4. March 15 Through 18, 2011: āItās Going to Get Worse . . .ā
- 5. InterludeāSearching for Answers: āPeople . . . Are Reaching the Limit of Anxiety and Angerā
- 6. March 19 Through 20, 2011: āGive Me the Worst Caseā
- 7. Another March, Another Nation, Another Meltdown
- 8. March 21 Through December 2011: āThe Safety Measures . . . Are Inadequateā
- 9. Unreasonable Assurances
- 10. āThis Is a Closed Meeting. Right?ā
- 11. 2012: āThe Government Owes the Public a Clear and Convincing Answerā
- 12. A Rapidly Closing Window of Opportunity
- Appendix: The Fukushima Postmortem: What Happened?
- Glossary
- Key Individuals
- U.S. Boiling Water Reactors with āMark Iā and āMark IIā Containments
- Notes and References
- Index