My Nuclear Nightmare
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My Nuclear Nightmare
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Author : Naoto Kan
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-10
My Nuclear Nightmare written by Naoto Kan and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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 caused meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Ranked with Chernobyl as the worst nuclear disaster in history, Fukushima will have lasting consequences for generations. Until 3.11, Japan’s Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, had supported the use of nuclear power. His position would undergo a radical change, however, as Kan watched the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant unfold and came to understand the potential for the physical, economic, and political destruction of Japan.In My Nuclear Nightmare, Kan offers a fascinating day-by-day account of his actions in the harrowing week after the earthquake struck. He records the anguished decisions he had to make as the scale of destruction became clear and the threat of nuclear catastrophe loomed ever larger—decisions made on the basis of information that was often unreliable. For example, frustrated by the lack of clarity from the executives at Tepco, the company that owned the power plant, Kan decided to visit Fukushima himself, despite the risks, so he could talk to the plant’s manager and find out what was really happening on the ground. As he details, a combination of extremely good fortune and hard work just barely prevented a total meltdown of all of Fukushima’s reactor units, which would have necessitated the evacuation of the thirty million residents of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.In the book, first published in Japan in 2012, Kan also explains his opposition to nuclear power: "I came to understand that a nuclear accident carried with it a risk so large that it could lead to the collapse of a country." When Kan was pressured by the opposition to step down as prime minister in August 2011, he agreed to do so only after legislation had been passed to encourage investments in alternative energy. As both a document of crisis management during an almost unimaginable disaster and a cogent argument about the dangers of nuclear power, My Nuclear Nightmare is essential reading.
How To End The Nuclear Nightmare
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Author : Stuart M. Speiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
How To End The Nuclear Nightmare written by Stuart M. Speiser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Nuclear disarmament categories.
The Mini Nuke Conspiracy
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Author : Peter Hounam
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1995
The Mini Nuke Conspiracy written by Peter Hounam and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Nuclear Nightmare
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Author : W Michael Hewitt
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Nuclear Nightmare written by W Michael Hewitt and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with categories.
Craig returned from the hospital. He had been poisoned so they could use his Q-Cell test rig. Now it was gone and a nuclear time bomb was in the PUREX tunnel. He was powerless with his company and the Atomic Energy Commission in league to cover it up. And Ty Rettig, a complete psychopath, was eliminating all loose ends to pull off one of the most daring cons of a lifetime. Nuclear Nightmare is a tale of murder, fear, corrupt political leaders, and deceit that will take you into the secret world of nuclear weapons production and a megalomaniac who will stop at nothing to dominate everyone.
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster And The Future Of Renewable Energy
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Author : Naoto Kan
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster And The Future Of Renewable Energy written by Naoto Kan and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In vivid language, he tells how he struggled with the possibility that tens of millions of people would need to be evacuated. Cornell Global Perspectives is an imprint of Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The works examine critical global challenges, often from an interdisciplinary perspective, and are intended for a non-specialist audience. The Distinguished Speaker series presents edited transcripts of talks delivered at Cornell, both in the original language and in translation.
Nuclear Nightmare
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Author : John Kimpton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984*
Nuclear Nightmare written by John Kimpton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984* with categories.
Nuclear Nightmares
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Author : Joseph Cirincione
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Nuclear Nightmares written by Joseph Cirincione and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Political Science categories.
There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong—these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare. Joseph Cirincione surveys the best thinking and worst fears of experts specializing in nuclear warfare and assesses the efforts to reduce or eliminate these nuclear dangers. His book offers hope: in the 1960s, twenty-three states had nuclear weapons and research programs; today, only nine states have weapons. More countries have abandoned nuclear weapon programs than have developed them, and global arsenals are just one-quarter of what they were during the Cold War. Yet can these trends continue, or are we on the brink of a new arms race—or worse, nuclear war? A former member of Senator Obama's nuclear policy team, Cirincione helped shape the policies unveiled in Prague in 2009, and, as president of an organization intent on reducing nuclear threats, he operates at the center of debates on nuclear terrorism, new nuclear nations, and the risks of existing arsenals.
Waking From The Nuclear Nightmare Kit
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Author : Huntley, Juliet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Waking From The Nuclear Nightmare Kit written by Huntley, Juliet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Nuclear disarmament categories.
Nuclear Nightmare
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Author : Robin Twiddy
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Release Date : 2019-12-30
Nuclear Nightmare written by Robin Twiddy and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-30 with Disasters categories.
Nuclear power provides almost 15 percent of the world's electricity, but this energy doesn't come without a cost. Past nuclear accidents have had disastrous effects on the environment and future accidents could cause an even larger catastrophe. Looming large-scale are the devastating effects of nuclear warfare. With this arresting book, which is a clever mix of fact and fiction, readers join young Shona as she leaves a bunker she was born in for the first time. Through Shona's journal and photographs, they discover a possible dreadful future and how such a disaster could be avoided in real life.
My Journey At The Nuclear Brink
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Author : William Perry
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-11
My Journey At The Nuclear Brink written by William Perry and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Perry has long been one of the more strenuous advocates for confronting the dangers of the nuclear age, and his engaging memoir explains why.” —Foreign Affairs My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it. This book traces his thought process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the Soviets’ numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding over the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers. “Perry’s authoritative memoir. . . . is a clear, sobering and, for many, surprising warning that the danger of a nuclear catastrophe today is actually greater than it was during that era of U.S.-Soviet competition…a significant and insightful memoir and a necessary read.” —Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report