Following the disaster at the , the public is showing increased interest in nuclear safety. This important book is based on an independent report on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disater in Japan in March 2011. The overall goal is to provide a factual assessment of the nuclear power industry, as well as to raise questions about safety and security.
"In a subject area beset by controversy and seemingly interminable disagreements, The Bulletin has long served to provide highly reliable analyses of things nuclear. The Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster is a case in point, with numerous- often conflicting- reports on what went wrong and what went right, who did what, and who did not? and this book does a great job of distilling the principal issues, and providing a clear-headed analysis of what actually transpired. While there is still much to learn about, and from, this nuclear disaster, the interested reader will not find a better current analysis, and I urge all with a stake in learning how to do better in the nuclear power arena to read this book." -Robert Rosner, former director of Argonne National Laboratory, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics at University of Chicago, and Co-Director, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, USA.
"A primary lesson of the text is that the time to be responsive to threats, natural or human-made, and to bridge understanding between business and government's need to regulate in the public interest, is before a disaster. The story stands as a stark warning to highly specialized businesses that believe in a myth of safety, and to governments who fail to regulate in the public interest. It is written with a vital style that is suspenseful and immediate. This book offers insight for businesses planning for emergency responses in technical environments, readers interested in studying the interactions of business and government in crises, and students of emergency management, while also providing general readers an inside view of one of the greatest technological disasters of our time." - Christopher L. Atkinson, Ph.D., Global Business Review, Florida Atlantic University, USA
"The English version of this volume goes beyond a simple translation; the authors expended significant efforts to update and edit their chapters. The first chapter in particular, an overview of the crisis as it unfolded, is one of the most detailed while easily accessible accounts of the disaster available." - Social Science Japan, Kenji E. Kushida, Stanford University
