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My nuclear nightmare : leading Japan through the Fukushima disaster to a nuclear-free future by Naoto Kan, Jeffrey S. Irish is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Naoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. Kan compared the potential worst-case devastation that could be caused by a nuclear power plant meltdown as tantamount only to 'a great world war. Nothing else has the same impact.' Japan escaped such a dire fate during the Fukushima disaster, said Kan, only ‘due to luck.’ Even so, Kan had to make some steely-nerved decisions that necessitated putting all emotion aside. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make the sacrifice to save the many. Kan knew that abandoning the Fukushima Daiichi site would cause radiation levels in the surrounding environment to soar. His insistence that the Tepco workforce remain at Fukushima was perhaps one of the most unsung moments of heroism in the whole sorry saga."—__The Ecologist__ On March 11, 2011, a massive undersea earthquake off Japan’s coast triggered devastating tsunami waves that in turn

Who reads My nuclear nightmare : leading Japan through the Fukushima disaster to a nuclear-free future?

Author

Naoto Kan, Jeffrey S. Irish

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501706110

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Political Science, Social Science