 | My Nuclear Nightmare: Leading Japan through the Fukushima Disaster to a Nuclear-Free Future Subjects: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Japan 2011; Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Japan; Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- Japan; In My Nuclear Nightmare , Naoto Kan offers a fascinating day-by-day account of his actions in the harrowing week after the earthquake struck. He records the anguished decisions he had to make as the scale of destruction became clear and the threat of nuclear catastrophe loomed ever larger. Naoto Kan is the former Prime Minister of Japan. He is an adviser on renewable energy for Japan's Technical Committee on Renewable Energy. Jeffrey S. Irish is Associate Professor of Economics at the International University of Kagoshima. He is the translator of books including The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore . |
