
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
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Jonathan Todd Ross
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Pulitzer Prizewinning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story. Fukushima combines a fast-paced, riveting 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.
The narrative also extends to other severe nuclear accidents to address both the terrifying question of whether it could happen elsewhere and how such a crisis can be averted in the future.
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Much is NOT about Fukushima
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Well done
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need to stick to the facts
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Good story of a terrible catastrophe
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not what i was expecting
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
If you are interested in a factual account mixed with policy implications for the nuclear industry you have found your book. For me this was just "meh". Good non- fiction writers have a way of infusing a true story with a narrative that offers some suspense, tension, or at least lets you get behind the scenes to get to know the players and their take on what happened and it's impact on them. All that is missing here and the result reads more like an extended encyclopedia entry rather than an engrossing page turner. The problem may lie with the group of writers - all from the field. Would have benefitted from a ghost writer to help them along.What does Jonathan Todd Ross bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Can't complain about the narration. Well read.Could you see Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
If so, would need some major script doctoring, even if it were a documentary, Can't see Tarantino directing this.A scholarly take on the subject
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Better books on this topic out there
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very politically motivated
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What I didn't know, Truth must be told
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Scary and informative
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