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Learning from a Disaster
Improving Nuclear Safety and Security After Fukushima
Scott D. Sagan (Author), Edward D. Blandford (Author)
9780804795616
Hardback, published 6 April 2016
232 pages, 4 tables, 15 figures
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg
"This book, edited by Blandford and Sagan, brings together experts from a variety of institutions and disciplines (including nuclear engineering, environmental history, political science, public policy, and risk assessment) from Japan and the United States to analyze the events leading up to and following this man-made catastrophe...This book provides an easy-to-read reference guide to the disaster which will be of interest to graduate students and advanced undergraduates seeking summaries about Fukushima."—Daniel P. Aldrich, Pacific Affairs
This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings 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 learned—and not learned—after 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.
Introduction: Learning from a Man-made Disaster
-Scott D. Sagan
1. Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: An Overview
-Kenji E. Kushida
2. The Accident That Could Never Happen: Deluded by a Design Basis
-Gregory D. Wyss
3. Security Implications of the Fukushima Accident
-Kaoru Naito
4. Political Leadership in Nuclear Emergency: Institutional and Structural Constraints
-Nobumasa Akiyama
5. Radiation Protection by Numbers: Another Man-made Disaster"
-Toshihiro Higuchi
6. Encouraging Transnational Organizational Learning
-Kazuto Suzuki
7. Were Japan's Nuclear Plants Uniquely Vulnerable?
-Phillip Lipscy, Kenji E. Kushida, and Trevor Incerti
Conclusion: Beyond Fukushima: Enhancing Nuclear Safety and Security in the 21st Century
-Michael May and Edward Blandford