[ RadSafe ] Union of Concerned Scientists newly released book about Fukushima

[Roger Helbig]

This probably will get very wide play, not just within anti-nuclear
activist channels, but elsewhere.

Roger Helbig
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Christina MacPherson posted: "the problems that led to the disaster at
Fukushima Daiichi exist wherever reactors operate.Fukushima: The Story
Of A Nuclear Disaster' Reveals New Insight Into Japanese Catastrophe
International Business Times, By Roxanne Palmeron February 11 2014
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ew book shows problems inherent in all nuclear power plants

by Christina MacPherson

the problems that led to the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi exist
wherever reactors operate.

Fukushima: The Story Of A Nuclear Disaster' Reveals New Insight Into
Japanese Catastrophe International Business Times, By Roxanne Palmeron
February 11 2014  The story of the 2011 catastrophe at Japan's
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant unfolds in a new book-length
account from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit advocacy
group.

"Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster" (The New Press) was
penned by David Lochbaum, head of the UCS's Nuclear Safety Project
(and a nuclear engineer for 17 years); Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist
in UCS's Global Security Program; and journalist Susan Stranahan, who
led the Philadelphia Inquirer's coverage of the Three Mile Island
Accident in Dauphin, Pennsylvania (which earned the paper the 1980
Pulitzer Prize in local general reporting).

Lochbaum and his coauthors weave a fast-paced, detailed narrative that
moves like a thriller -- but with the consequences painfully real, and
the potential for a sequel hanging on the horizon.

"Fukushima Daiichi unmasked the weaknesses of nuclear power plant
design and the long-standing flaws in operations and regulatory
oversight," the authors write. "Although Japan must share the blame,
this was not a Japanese nuclear accident; it was a nuclear accident
that just happened to have occurred in Japan. The problems that led to
the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi exist wherever reactors
operate.".......http://www.ibtimes.com/fukushima-story-nuclear-disaster-reveals-new-insight-japanese-catastrophe-1554714

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