Naoto Kan My Nuclear Nightmare (Relié)

EUR 29,03 Achat immédiat, Livraison gratuite, 30-Jour Retours, Garantie client eBay
Vendeur: rarewaves-europe ✉️ (191.642) 98.1%, Lieu où se trouve: GU14 0GT, GB, Lieu de livraison: WORLDWIDE, Numéro de l'objet: 185997308692 Naoto Kan My Nuclear Nightmare (Relié).

Détails de l’annonce

Titre: My Nuclear Nightmare
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: Leading Japan through the Fukushima Disaster to a Nuclear-Free Future
Auteur: Naoto Kan
Traducteur: Jeffrey S. Irish
Contributeur: Jeffrey S. Irish (Translated by)
Format: Relié
ISBN-10: 1501705814
EAN: 9781501705816
ISBN: 9781501705816
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Genre: Biography
Sujet: History, Law & Politics
Date de publication: 2017-01-10
Description:

"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.


Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Item Height: 216
Item Length: 140.00
Item Width: 22.00
Poids: 454g
Année de publication: 2017

Information manquante?

Veuillez nous contacter pour toute information manquante, nous l’ajouterions volontiers dans notre description.

  • Condition: Neuf
  • Title: My Nuclear Nightmare
  • Titre: My Nuclear Nightmare
  • Sous titres: Leading Japan through the Fukushima Disaster to a Nuclear-Free Fu
  • Auteur: Naoto Kan
  • Traducteur: Jeffrey S. Irish
  • Contributeur: Jeffrey S. Irish (Translated by)
  • Format: Relié
  • ISBN-10: 1501705814
  • EAN: 9781501705816
  • ISBN: 9781501705816
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Genre: Biography
  • Sujet: Anglais
  • Date de publication: 2017-01-10
  • Année de publication: 2017
  • Pays/Région de fabrication: US
  • Item Height: 216
  • Item Length: 140.00
  • Item Width: 22.00
  • Poids: 454g

PicClick Insights - Naoto Kan My Nuclear Nightmare (Relié) PicClick Exclusif

  •  Popularité - 0 personnes suivent la vente, 0.0 de nouvelles personnes suivent la vente par jour, 253 days for sale on eBay. 0 vendu, 10 disponibles.
  •  Meilleur Prix -
  •  Vendeur - 191.642+ articles vendu. 1.9% évaluations négative. Grand vendeur avec la très bonne rétroaction positive et plus de 50 cotes.

Les Gens ont Aussi Aimé PicClick Exclusif