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    My nuclear nightmare : leading Japan through the Fukushima disaster to a nuclear-free future / Naoto Kan ; translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey S. Irish.

    By: Kan, Naoto, 1946- [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2012Description: xiii, 176 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501705816; 1501705814Uniform titles: Tōden Fukushima Genpatsu Jiko. English Subject(s): Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011) | Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 | Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Japan | Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- Japan | Nuclear energy -- Government policy | Nuclear power plants -- Accidents | Japan | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political | HISTORY / Asia / Japan | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief | Kan, Naoto 1946- | Kernenergie | Katastrophe | Energiepolitik | Ausstieg | Aktivismus | Fukushima | JapanDDC classification: 363.17/990952117 LOC classification: TK1365.J3 | K35613 2017
    Contents:
    Prologue : my nuclear nightmare -- Memories from the abyss -- Taking action before stepping down -- The road to a nuclear-free Japan.
    Summary: 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 then, Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, had supported the use of nuclear power. His position would undergo a radical change, however, as he 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.
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    Translated from the Japanese.

    Includes bibliographical references.

    Prologue : my nuclear nightmare -- Memories from the abyss -- Taking action before stepping down -- The road to a nuclear-free Japan.

    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 then, Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, had supported the use of nuclear power. His position would undergo a radical change, however, as he 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.

    Translated from the Japanese.

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