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    Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
    Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
    Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
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    Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima

    By Scott D. Sagan and Edward D. Blandford

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStanford Security Studies
    Release dateApr 6, 2016
    ISBN9780804797368
    Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
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    Scott D. Sagan

    Scott D. Sagan is Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is coeditor of Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons, also from Cornell, and the author of The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons, among other books.

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