TY - BOOK ID - 80837463 TI - Learning from a disaster AU - Blandford, Edward D AU - Sagan, Scott Douglas PY - 2016 SN - 9780804797368 0804797366 9780804795616 0804795614 9780804797351 0804797358 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear power plants KW - Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. KW - Fukushima I Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima II Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima Accident, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima Daini Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima Disaster, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Japan, 2011 KW - Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 KW - Atomic power plants KW - Nuclear power stations KW - Nuclear facilities KW - Power-plants KW - Antinuclear movement KW - Nuclear energy KW - Safety measures. KW - Security measures KW - Security measures. KW - Accidents UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80837463 AB - 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. ER -