Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

A timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan's NE coastline. In providing riveting insights into its background and the disaster management options taken and the political, technical and social reactions as the accident unfolded, the book critically reflects on both the implications for managing future nuclear disasters and the future of nuclear power itself.

Foreword; Ian Lowe 1. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Introducing the Terrain; Richard Hindmarsh 2. Social Shaping of Nuclear Safety: Before and After the Disaster; Takuji Hara 3. Social Structure and Nuclear Power Siting Problems Revealed; Kohta Juraku 4. 3/11: Megatechnology, Siting, Place and Participation; Richard Hindmarsh 5. Environmental Infrastructures of Emergency: The Formation of a Civic Radiation Monitoring Map during the Fukushima Disaster; Atsuro Morita, Anders Blok and Shuhei Kimura 6. Post-Apocalyptic Citizenship and Humanitarian Hardware; Denisa Kera, Jan Rod and Radka Peterova 7. Envirotechnical Disaster at Fukushima: Nature, Technology and Politics; Sara B. Pritchard 8. Nuclear Power after 3/11: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead; Catherine Butler, Karen A. Parkhill, and Nicholas F. Pidgeon 9. The Search for Energy Security After Fukushima Daiichi; Jim Falk 10. The Future Is Not Nuclear: Ethical Choices for Energy after Fukushima; Andrew Blowers 11. Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?; Sonja D. Schmid 12. Fallout from Fukushima Daiichi: An Endnote; Richard Hindmarsh