| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society |
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Routledge studies in science, technology, and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Editor's Preface; Foreword; 1 Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Introducing the Terrain; 2 Social Shaping of Nuclear Safety: Before and After the Disaster; 3 Social Structure and Nuclear Power Siting Problems Revealed; 4 3/11: Megatechnology, Siting, Place and Participation; 5 Environmental Infrastructures of Emergency: The Formation of a Civic Radiation Monitoring Map During the Fukushima Disaster |
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6 Post-Apocalyptic Citizenship and Humanitarian Hardware7 Envirotechnical Disaster at Fukushima: Nature, Technology and Politics; 8 Nuclear Power After 3/11: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead; 9 The Search for Energy Security After Fukushima Daiichi; 10 The Future Is Not Nuclear: Ethical Choices for Energy After Fukushima; 11 Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?; 12 Fallout from Fukushima Daiichi: An Endnote; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
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Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
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Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken
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Environmental disasters -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Environmental disasters
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Nuclear power plants -- Accidents
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Kärnkraftverk -- Japan.
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Fukushimaolyckan 2011.
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Jordbävningen i Japan 2011.
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Kärnkraftsolyckor.
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Japan
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Japan -- Fukushima-ken
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Japan -- Tōhoku Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135910891 |
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1135910898 |
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