Date/Time: Friday, July 11th, 2014
Place: A101 (Jin-Bun Shakai Gaku Kei A-To)
Subject: The Fukushima Disaster and Japan’s Nuclear Plant Vulnerability in Comparative Perspective
Speaker: Phillip Y. Lipscy
(Assistant Professor,
Political Science and Thomas Rholen Center Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center
Stanford University)
We consider the vulnerability of nuclear power plants worldwide to a disaster like the one that occurred at Fukushima Daiichi. The data shows that Japanese plants were relatively unprotected, but not uniquely so. Older power plants and plants owned by the largest utility companies appear to have been particularly unprotected.
Presentation will be given in English. No registration is required.
