Learning From A Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety And Security After Fukushima

This bookùthe culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effortùbrings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective. It explains the complex interactions between nuclear safety risks (the causes and consequences of accidents) and nuclear security risks (the causes and consequences of sabotage or terrorist attacks), exposing the possible vulnerabilities all countries may have if they fail to learn from this accident. The book further analyzes the lessons of Fukushima in comparative perspective, focusing on the politics of safety and emergency preparedness. It first compares the different policies and procedures adopted by various nuclear facilities in Japan and then discusses the lessons learnedùand not learnedùafter major nuclear accidents and incidents in other countries in the past. The book's editors conclude that learning lessons across nations has proven to be very difficult, and they propose new policies to improve global learning after nuclear accidents or attacks.

• | Author: Scott Sagan, Edward Blandford
• | Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
• | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 0804797358
• | ISBN-13: 9780804797351