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    Fukushima; Nuclear Disaster on the ring of fire
    Fukushima; Nuclear Disaster on the ring of fire
    Fukushima; Nuclear Disaster on the ring of fire
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    Fukushima; Nuclear Disaster on the ring of fire

    By Bill Sargent

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    Fukushima takes an in-depth look at the March, 2011 nuclear disaster that occurred as a result of one the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit Japan. In his lively and conversational writing style, Sargent puts the tragedy in useful context by exploring what led the Japanese to build 55 nuclear power plants on one of the most seismically active locations on Earth,
    Sargent helps us to see Japan's economic success story through the prism of its aggressive approach to energy independence while resisting new geological understandings of plate tectonics that would likely have changed their decision to build the plants along the geologic "ring of fire."
    Fukushima also takes us through the moment-by-moment decisions and miscommunications that created the worst nuclear disaster in our planet's history, demonstrating that there is no such thing as a fail-safe nuclear system. But Sargent's tale isn't all dark. He leaves us with a peak into a possible energy future that relies much more on clean energy and forces us to take a long, hard look at our reliance on nuclear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Sargent
    Release dateAug 16, 2011
    Fukushima; Nuclear Disaster on the ring of fire
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    Bill Sargent

    WILLIAM SARGENT is a consultant for the NOVA Science Series and has written eight books about science and the environment, including The House on Ipswich Marsh (UPNE, 2005); Storm Surge (UPNE, 2004); Sea Level Rising (Schifferbooks, 2004); Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health (UPNE, 2002); A Year in the Notch: Exploring the Natural History of the White Mountains (UPNE, 2001); The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine (1988). His Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay (1981) received the Boston Globe Winship award for the best book about New England and was the basis for a NOVA film, The Sea Behind the Dunes, selected by the National Audubon Society as the best natural history film of the year.

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      Fukushima; Nuclear Disaster on the ring of fire - Bill Sargent

      FUKUSHIMA

      by

      William Sargent

      ******

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Strawberry Hill Press, 2011

      http://www.strawberryhillpress.com

      *******

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Also by William Sargent

      The Well From Hell, 2011

      Sea Level Rising, 2009

      Just Seconds from the Ocean, 2008

      Crab Wars, 2006

      The House on Ipswich Marsh, 2005

      Praise for Other Books:

      With his fine descriptions and lucid explanations, Sargent joins the company of Lewis Thomas and Stephen Jay Gould as a first-rate interpreter of modern science. ~ Publisher’s Weekly

      It is a gem of Natural History… the best introduction to the original environment of the New England coast. ~ Dr. E. O. Wilson, Harvard University

      A joy to read.~ The Washington Post

      A Great Read! Sargent takes us on a raucous jaunt through the New England forest, to see the big picture with unclouded eyes. A true biologist, he examines everything in sight and counts it relevant, connecting it with seamless prose into the rational new picture. It’s a powerful boost to the new Nature religion that references us to Life on Earth. ~ Dr. Bernd Heinrich

      It’s science writing that reads like a novel, with all the page-turning excitement of a thriller." ~ William Martin

      Sargent can turn an event as mundane as a rising tide into poetry. This is a book for everyone who loves the shore, especially Cape Cod.~ The Boston Globe

      If you only have time for one book about life-death dramas played to the sound of crashing waves, about new science and the old sea, about Nobel prizes, squid brains and sex orgies on Cape Cod beaches, then this book is for you. ~ Dr. A.A. Moscona, Journal of the American Medical Association

      Table Of Contents

      Chapter 1 - Poised on the Ring of Fire

      Chapter 2 - Fact-Based Decision Making

      Chapter 3 - Climb the Mountain!

      Chapter 4 - San Ten Ichi Ichi

      Chapter 5 - Where it all Began

      Chapter 6 - Three-mile Island and Chernobyl

      Chapter 7 - The Silver Lining

      Chapter One

      Poised on The Ring of Fire

      The Japanese Islands

      750 Million years ago

      The Japanese Islands sit on one of the most seismically active shards of geology on our planet. To understand their complicated history we must first review plate tectonics, the theory that changed our view of geology as thoroughly as the theory of evolution shaped our view of life on earth.

      The surface of our planet is covered with 12 major plates and about 22 minor plates of the earth’s crust. The plates carry both the older granitic continents that sit lightly on top and the younger, heavier basaltic slabs that make up the bottom of the oceans.

      Slabs of this sea floor crust are constantly being created as they rise along a series of underwater volcanoes that encircle our globe like the seams on a baseball, and they are constantly being consumed as they are sucked back into the earth’s interior at the plates’ margins.

      As the oceanic crust is pulled back toward the earth’s molten interior it

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