Learning from a disaster : improving nuclear safety and security after Fukushima / edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : learning from a man-made disaster / Scott D. Sagan -- Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster : an overview / Kenji E. Kushida -- The accident that could never happen : deluded by a design basis / Gregory D. Wyss -- Security implications of the Fukushima accident / Kaoru Naito -- Political leadership in nuclear emergency : institutional and structural constraints / Nobumasa Akiyama -- Radiation protection by numbers : another "man-made disaster" / Toshihiro Higuchi -- Encouraging transnational organizational learning / Kazuto Suzuki -- Were Japan's nuclear plants uniquely vulnerable? / Phillip Lipscy, Kenji E. Kushida, and Trevor Incerti -- Beyond Fukushima : enhancing nuclear safety and security in the 21st century / Edward D. Blandford and Michael M. May.