Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ahn, Joonhong (Editor), Carson, Cathryn (Editor), Jensen, Mikael (Editor), Juraku, Kohta (Editor), Nagasaki, Shinya (Editor), Tanaka, Satoru (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Environmental sciences.; Nuclear engineering.; Social sciences.; Nuclear Engineering.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Social Sciences, general.

This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part of a collaborative program between the University of Tokyo and UC Berkeley. Motivated by the particula...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding the accident and its consequences
• Etiology
• Lessons learned: Basis for moving forward
• Students’ reflections
• Education in future.