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

Learning from a disaster : improving nuclear safety and security after Fukushima / edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



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