Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

1. Integrating Social-Scientific Literacy in Nuclear Engineering Education
Kohta Juraku, Cathryn Carson, Shinya Nagasaki, Mikael Jensen, Joonhong Ahn, Satoru Tanaka

Part I. Understanding the Fukushima Daiichi Accident and Its Consequences

2. Event Sequence of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
Shinya Mizokami, Yuji Kumagai

3. Analysis of Radioactive Release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Satoru Tanaka, Shinichiro Kado

4. Environmental Contamination and Decontamination After Fukushima Daiichi Accident
Joonhong Ahn

5. Long-Term Energy and Environmental Strategies
Yasumasa Fujii, Ryōichi Komiyama

6. Impact of Fukushima Daiichi Accident on Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Spent Fuel Management
Joonhong Ahn

7. Political Impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident in Europe
Mikael Jensen

Part II. Etiology

8. Where Was the Weakness in Application of Defense-in-Depth Concept and Why?
Akira Omoto

9. Ethics, Risk and Safety Culture
William E. Kastenberg

10. The “Structural Disaster” of the Science-Technology-Society Interface
Miwao Matsumoto

11. Three Mile Island and Fukushima
J. Samuel Walker

Part III. Basis for Moving Forward

12. Implications and Lessons for Advanced Reactor Design and Operation
Yoshiaki Oka, Dietmar Bittermann

13. Understanding the Health Impacts and Risks of Exposure to Radiation
Taylor A. Choi, Sylvain V. Costes, Rebecca J. Abergel

14. Nuclear Safety Regulation in Japan and Impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
Hideaki Shiroyama

15. Radioactive Waste Management After Fukushima Daiichi Accident
Shinya Nagasaki

16. From Fukushima to the World
Tatsujiro Suzuki

Part IV. Reflections by Students and Mentors

17. Students’ Reflections
Beth Cary

18. Educating the Post-Fukushima Nuclear Engineer
Mary E. Sunderland

19. Reflections on Developing an Identity for the Third Generation Nuclear Engineer in the Post-Fukushima Society
Robert Angelo Borrelli

20. Nuclear Engineers for Society: What Education can do
Takuji Oda

Part V. Education in Future

21. Engineers, Social Scientists, and Nuclear Power
Cathryn Carson

22. Towards More Open-Minded Nuclear Engineering
Kohta Juraku

23. Lunchbox-Toolbox: GKS1350021 and Nuclear Engineers
Gayle K. Sato

24. Resilience Engineering
Kazuo Furuta

25. Erratum to: Integrating Social-Scientific Literacy in Nuclear Engineering Education
Kohta Juraku, Cathryn Carson, Shinya Nagasaki, Mikael Jensen, Joonhong Ahn, Satoru Tanaka

Keywords: Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, general