Summary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUC

Murray, Julie

Summary: "This title will help readers understand the causes, timeline, and aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dash! Leveled Readers, an imprint of Abdo Zoom 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.17 MUR

Vollmann, William T.

Summary: William T.Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann recounts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 VOL

Bortz, Alfred B.

Summary: Recounts the Tohoku earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1799 BOR

Williams, Andria

Summary: In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the country’s first nuclear reactors—an assignment that seems full of opportunity. Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Summary: Investigates the theory that the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine had been orchestrated by the Soviet Union as a screen for the decommissioning of the Duga (i.e., Woodpecker) ballistic missle advance warning system (based in the vicinity of the reactor) because of the inevitable change in relations between Ukraine and what was soon to become post-Cold War Russia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RUS