Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster / David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and The Union of Concerned Scientists.

Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster / David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and The Union of Concerned Scientists.

Alternate Title
: 
Story of a nuclear disaster

By
: 
Lochbaum, David A.

Publication Date
: 
2014

Publication Information
: 
New York : The New Press,

Physical Description
: 
ix, 309 p. : ill., maps.

Subject Term
: 
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
 
Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Japan.

Additional Contributors
: 
Stranahan, Susan Q.
 
Lyman, Edwin S. (Edwin Stuart)

Bibliography Note
: 
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary
: 
In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9781595589088


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction363.1799 L78