Legacies of Fukushima : : 3.11 in Context /

Legacies of Fukushima : : 3.11 in Context / / ed. by Ryuma Shineha, Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles.

It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters, devastating the seaboard of northeastern Japan; three reactors in meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Bonner, Sean,
Brown, Azby,
Cleveland, Kyle,
Fackler, Martin,
Jacobs, Robert,
Jobin, Paul,
Juraku, Kohta,
Kamisato, Tatsuhiro,
Kingston, Jeff,
Kinsella, William J.,
Knowles, Scott Gabriel,
Lesavre, Başak Saraç-,
Lifton, Robert Jay,
Murillo, Luis Felipe R.,
Schmid, Sonja D.,
Shineha, Ryuma,
Simms, James,
Suzuki, Tatsujiro,
Yagi, Ekou,
HerausgeberIn:
Cleveland, Kyle,
Knowles, Scott Gabriel,
Shineha, Ryuma,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword. Fukushima’s Special Message
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LEARNING FROM DISASTER
  • Chapter 1. What Was Learned from 3.11
  • Chapter 2. Unfulfilled Promises: Why Structural Disasters Make It Difficult to “Learn from Disasters”
  • Chapter 3. Fukushima Radiation Inside Out
  • Chapter 4. Has Japan Learned a Lesson from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
  • Chapter 5. The Developmental State and Nuclear Power in Japan
  • PART II. PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND PUBLIC TRUST
  • Chapter 6. The Road to Fukushima: A US- Japan History
  • Chapter 7. Media Capture: The Japanese Press and Fukushima
  • Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
  • Chapter 9. Nuclear Labor, Its Invisibility, and the Dispute over Low- Dose Radiation
  • Chapter 10. Food and Water Contamination After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
  • Chapter 11. Suffering the Effects of Scientific Evidence
  • PART III. POSSIBLE FUTURES
  • Chapter 12. Building a Community- Based Platform for Radiation Monitoring After 3.11
  • Chapter 13. The Closely Watched Case of Iitate Village: The Need for Global Communication of Local Problems
  • Chapter 14. Describing and Memorializing 3.11: Namie and Ishinomaki
  • Chapter 15. Renegotiating Nuclear Safety After Fukushima: Regulatory Dilemmas and Dialogues in the United States
  • Chapter 16. International Reactions to Fukushima
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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