The 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident : how and why it happened / Yotaro Hatamura, Seiji Abe, Masao Fuchigami, Naoto Kasahara ; translated by Kenji Iino.

In March 2011 the Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP) in Japan was hit by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami which resulted in the release of significant amounts of radioactive material. The incident led to the suspension of nuclear programmes by a number of countries. This book provides a definit...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors:	Hatamura, Yōtarō (Author), Abe, Seiji, 1952- (Author), Fuchigami, Masao, 1949- (Author), Kasahara, Naoto, 1960- (Author)
Other Authors:	Iino, Kenji (Translator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Japanese
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Waltham, MA : Woodhead Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier, [2015]
Series:	Woodhead Publishing in energy.
Subjects:	Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. Nuclear accidents > Environmental aspects. Nuclear accidents > Japan. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011) Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (Japan : 2011) Nuclear accidents. Japan. Japan > Tōhoku Region.