Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is one of the first and most comprehensive social scientific analyses of the natural and human-made disaster that is Fukushima Daiichi. It brings together some of world's leading thinkers on science, technology and society, risk analysis, energy policy as well as indigenous Japanese scholars offering an internal critical account of the reasons, actors, dynamics and implications of this disaster. This is a major scholarly contribution to an extremely pressing and urgent issue and Hindmarsh is to be congratulated in bringing together such an impressive array of scholarship in such a short space of time."
--John Barry, Queens University, Belfast
"Richard Hindmarsh has added a new dimension to the global policy debate over the safety of nuclear energy. The twelve chapters in the book provide rich sources of information and conceptual agendas. The book will become a 'must' for those who want to partake in this ongoing discussion."
--Akira Nakamura, Meiji University
Not enough has been written about this multifaceted calamity, part of the greater 11 March incident called
3.11 in Japan. Richard Hindmarsh and his colleagues should be commended for taking on the difficult social and political aspects of the Fukushima disaster within Japan, and for shining an objective spotlight on the various official failings that magnified the crisis. It ought to be read by anyone concerned about the current state of the nuclear industry, the politics of disaster management and the nature of science and public opinion.
-Joel Campbell, Troy University, Global Campus, Japan-Korea