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Author Willacy, Mark, 1972- author

Title Fukushima : Japan's tsunami and the inside story of the nuclear meltdowns / Mark Willacy
Published Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2013
©2013

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Description xiii, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Ch. 1. San Ten Ichi Ichi -- Ch. 2. Feed and bleed -- Ch. 3 The sands of Fukushima -- Ch. 4. No surrender -- Ch. 5. Nuclear refugees -- Ch. 6. The tsunami and the shoe -- Ch. 7. The nuclear village -- Ch. 8. Cold shutdown -- Ch. 9. The luck of the sea -- Postscript : forgetting
Summary On 11 March 2011, Japan was rocked by the most violent earthquake in her history and one of the largest ever recorded. The quake itself was just the start of a chain of disastrous events, creating a massive tsunami that slammed the shores of north eastern Japan. Close to 20,000 people were killed or disappeared under waves that reached more than 40 metres high as they smashed their way several kilometres inland. Yet the greatest damage was caused when the tsunami surged over the seawall of Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, resulting in a multiple core meltdown that released vast quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and ocean. At one stage it even threatened the evacuation and irradiation of Tokyo itself, which would have spelt the end of Japan as we know it
Analysis Australian
Economic impact
Health impact
Japan
Nuclear accidents
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear safeguards
Overseas item
Radioactive fallout
Social impact
TEPCO
Tidal waves
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index
Subject Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- Japan.
Nuclear energy -- Japan -- Safety measures.
Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken.
Nuclear reactor accidents -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken.
Nuclear power plants -- Risk assessment -- Japan.
Radioactive pollution -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken.
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Tsunami damage -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken.
Tsunamis -- Japan -- Tōhoku Region.
SUBJECT Japan -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069539 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
Tōhoku Region (Japan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135813 -- Social conditions -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008643
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To�ў?hoku Region (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
T̄·oku Region (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
LC no. 2013412825
ISBN 9781742612959 (paperback)
Other Titles Japan's tsunami and the inside story of the nuclear meltdowns