Could a Fukushima-scale nuclear disaster happen here?

Event invitation from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Could a Fukushima-scale nuclear disaster happen here? Meet the co-author of our new book Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster, a definitive, scientific retelling of exactly what happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant—and an urgent reminder that U.S. nuclear power isn’t as safe as it could and should be.

Tuesday, June 10, 6:30 p.m., at the Historic 1717 Meetinghouse in West Barnstable.

EVENT INVITATION

Are We Safer? Nuclear Power & the Pilgrim Station Three Years After Fukushima
 

The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a discussion with the co-author of our new book, Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster, the most authoritative expert analysis to date about exactly what happened in one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The book offers an urgent reminder that more needs to be done here in the United States to prevent a similar disaster and to protect the millions of Americans who live near nuclear power plants.

Join us in West Barnstable to meet:

• Edwin Lyman, co-author, Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster, and senior scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

When: Tuesday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. (book signing at 6:30 p.m.)
Where: Historic 1717 Meetinghouse, 2049 Meetinghouse Way, West Barnstable, MA 02668

There will be a book signing preceding the event starting at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event, or before and after at Titcomb's Bookshop on 432 Route 6A in East Sandwich.

Dr. Lyman will provide an overview of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant three years ago and a summary of the still unfolding crisis. He'll discuss the status of proposed changes in U.S. safety regulations in response to the disaster and address specific concerns about the Pilgrim nuclear plant.

The event is sponsored by Cape Downwinders with the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Pilgrim Watch, Pilgrim Coalition, Cape Cod Bay Watch, and Concerned Neighbors of Plymouth.

About the Book
In the first definitive account of the Fukushima nuclear disaster as it played out in real time, two nuclear experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists—David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman—team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident. An intensely dramatic saga—including good intentions and bad, sacrifice and avarice, government ineptitude and corporate influence—it is also the story of the myth of nuclear safety and the heavy price paid by the people of Japan when reality shattered it.

Here's what one reviewer had to say about Fukushima: "The book is a gripping, suspenseful page-turner finely crafted to appeal both to people familiar with the science and those with only the barest inkling of how nuclear power works. Even with the broad outlines of the story in the public record, the authors have uncovered many important details that never came to light during the saturation-level media coverage."

Visit the UCS website to learn more about the book.