Título del libro: Extreme Magnitude Earthquakes And Their Direct Economic Impacts: A Hybrid Approach
Título del capítulo: High-Tech Risks: The 2011 Tôhoku Extreme Events
HERIBERTA LOURDES CASTAÑOS RODRIGUEZ; CINNA LOMNITZ ARONSFRAU;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2015
Palabras clave:
Cooling water; Disasters; Earthquakes; Electric utilities; Nuclear fuels; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear reactors; Plant shutdowns; Plants (botany); Tsunamis; 2011 tohoku earthquakes; Different frequency; Fukushima; Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plants; Fukushima nuclear accidents; Kansai electric power companies; Megaquake; U.s. national research councils; Nuclear reactor accidents
Resumen:
The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident was an extreme event by design. Engineers, geophysicists, and social scientists disagreed about the causation. Reports on this disaster were published by the Japanese government, the Lower-House legislature of Japan, the U.S. National Research Council, and nuclear utilities of both countries. The earthquake of 11 March 2011 of magnitude 9.0 was a megaquake followed by a mega-tsunami that caused more than 18,000 fatalities in Eastern Japan. Severe shaking of the ground damaged substations and shut down transmission lines as 11 nuclear reactors scrammed automatically. TEPCO, the owner of Fukushima- Daiichi nuclear power plant, was unable to borrow power from neighboring Kansai Electric Power Company because the two grids run on different frequencies (50 and 60 Hz). Shutdown cooling water and spent fuel-pool cooling were lost and three reactors experienced meltdown. We review the reports of Japanese and American official commissions and we introduce some ideas about tsunami landscapes and risk theory. © 2016 by the American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved.
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ISBN:
9781119157052
Editorial:
Wiley Blackwell Nombre de la publicación:
High-Tech Risks: The 2011 Tôhoku Extreme Events
Página inicial:
381
Página final:
389
