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Title

Learning from Fukushima : nuclear power in East Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness and Mel Gurtov.

Publication

• Canberra : ANU Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Van Ness, Peter
• Gurtov, Melvin

Description

xxv, 360 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

Learning from Fukushima began as a project to respond in a helpful way to the March 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown) in north-eastern Japan. It evolved into a collaborative and comprehensive investigation of whether nuclear power was a realistic energy option for East Asia, especially for the 10 member-countries of ASEAN, none of which currently has an operational nuclear power plant. We address all the questions that a country must ask in considering the possibility of nuclear power, including cost of construction, staffing, regulation and liability, decommissioning, disposal of nuclear waste, and the impact on climate change. The authors are physicists, engineers, biologists, a public health physician, and international relations specialists. Each author presents the results of their work.

Subject

• Nuclear power plants > East Asia
• Nuclear power plants > Risk assessment > East Asia
• Nuclear power plants > Health aspects > East Asia
• Nuclear power plants > East Asia > Evaluation
• Nuclear power plants
• Nuclear power plants > Evaluation
• Nuclear power plants > Health aspects
• Nuclear power plants > Risk assessment
• East Asia
• Australian

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I. The state of the nuclear industry. Nuclear energy policy issues in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear accident / Tatsujiro Suzuki -- The French exception: The French nuclear power industry and its influence on political plans to transition to a new energy system / Christina Stuart -- Energy subsidies: Global estimates, causes of variance, and gaps for the nuclear fuel cycle / Doug Koplow -- Part II. Country studies. A new normal? The changing future of nuclear energy in China / M. V. Ramana and Amy King -- Protesting policy and practice in South Korea's nuclear energy industry / Lauren Richardson -- Control or manipulation? Nuclear power in Taiwan / Gloria Kuang-Jung Hsu -- Enhancing nuclear energy cooperation in ASEAN: Regional norms and challenges / Mely Caballero-Anthony and Julius Cesar I. Trajano -- Part III. The real costs of going nuclear. Health implications of ionising radiation / Tilman A. Ruff -- Nuclear energy and its ecological byproducts: Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima / Timothy A. Mousseau and Anders P. Møller -- Part IV. A post-nuclear future. Decommissioning nuclear power reactors / Kalman A. Robertson -- Sustainable energy options / Andrew Blakers -- Lessons of Fukushima: Nine reasons why / Peter Van Ness.

ISBN

• 9781760461393
• 1760461393
• 9781760461409 (canceled/invalid)
• 1760461407 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn996795083
• SCSB-9100315

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library