On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi (Paperback)

from willoughby

In reading this book, I was hoping for a glimpse into the human moments surrounding the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant. I had concerns that it might be too focused on the technical aspects of what happened rather than the human ones. Thankfully, there was no need to worry. While the tech...

from moncur_d

Nuclear accidents are scary. Very scary. Fortunately there's not been too many of them. Unfortunately we only found out about what happened long after the event. In the case of Windscale, at the height of the cold war, it was all covered by the Official Secrets Act. Chernobyl's grim story only re...

from mamzel

Based on interviews with the men who risked their life to prevent a total meltdown, this book gives the reader a look inside the 2011 events at the nuclear reactor in Japan after being hit with a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and 10-meter high tsunami. While lots of information about the problems they...

from nmele

This is an almost minute by minute account of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident; although reference is made--must be made to the earthquake and tsunami which damaged the power plant and complicated all efforts to cope with the crisis. Aimed at the general Japanese reader, there are some refe...

from MarthaJeanne

This is the story of the people on the ground at Fukoshima after the earthquake in March 2011. These are the people who suceeded in keeping the reactors from becoming nuclear explosions. This is not the final story about Fukushima. As the conclusion makes clear, there were many bad planning decis...