Ebook: Fukushima: the Story of a Nuclear Disaster

Cover; About the Authors; Title Page; Contents; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; 1. March 11, 2011: "A Situation That We Had Never Imagined"; 2. March 12, 2011: "This May Get Really Ugly . . ."; 3. March 12 Through 14, 2011: "What the Hell Is Going On?"; 4. March 15 Through 18, 2011: "It's Going to Get Worse . . ."; 5. Interlude-Searching for Answers: "People ... Are Reaching the Limit of Anxiety and Anger"; 6. March 19 Through 20, 2011: "Give Me the Worst Case"; 7. Another March, Another Nation, Another Meltdown.;A gripping, suspenseful page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews) with a fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller" (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, with award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan to give us the first definitive account of the 2011 disaster that led to the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. Four years have passed since the day the world watched in horror as an earthquake large enough to shift the Earth's axis by several inches sent a massive tsunami toward t.