Title:
Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster / David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and The Union of Concerned Scientists.
Author:
Lochbaum, David A.
ISBN:
9781595589088
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Publication Date:
2014
Publication Info:
New York :
The New Press,
2014.
Physical Description:
ix, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
March 11, 2011: A situation that we had never imagined -- March 12, 2011: This may get really ugly -- March 12-14, 2011: What the hell is going on? -- March 15-18, 2011: It's going to get worse -- Interlude: searching for answers : People are reaching the limit of anxiety and anger -- March 19-20, 2011: Give me the worst case -- Another March, another nation, another meltdown -- March 21 - December 2011: The safety measures are inadequate -- Unreasonable assurances -- This is a closed meeting. Right? -- 2012: The government owes the public a clear and convincing answer -- A rapidly closing window of opportunity -- Appendix. The Fukushima postmortem : what happened?
Summary:
"In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time"--Amazon.com.
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