Monday, March 12, 2012

Reviews of Disaster at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant


1. Japan

Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission. (2012). The official report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission. Tokyo, Japan: The National Diet of Japan. [Full-text at http://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp/en/]

Funabashi, Y., & Kitazawa, K. (2012). Fukushima in review: A complex disaster, a disastrous response. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 68(2), 9-21. [Full-text at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096340212440359]

Government of Japan. (2012). Road to Recovery. Tokyo, Japan: Government of Japan. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Japan_Fukushima]

Investigation Committee on the Accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations of Tokyo Electric Power Company. (2012). Final Report. Tokyo, Japan: Secretariat of the Investigation Committee on the accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station. [Full-text at http://icanps.go.jp/eng/final-report.html]

Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters. (2011). Report of the Japanese Government to the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety - The Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations. Vienna, Austria: International Atomic Energy Agency. [Full-text at http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/japan-report/]

Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters. (2011). Additional Report of the Japanese Government to the IAEA - The Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations. Vienna, Austria: International Atomic Energy Agency. [Full-text at http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/japan-report2/]

Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters. (2011). Mid-and-long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Units 1-4, TEPCO. Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Electric Power Company. [Full-text at http://j.mp/TEPCO_Fukushima]

2. United States

Gauntt, R., et al. (2012). Fukushima Daiichi Accident Study (Status as of April 2012). (SAND2012-6173). Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories. [Full-text at http://j.mp/SandiaReport]

Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. (2011). Special Report on  the Nuclear Accident  at the Fukushima  Daiichi Nuclear  Power Station. Atlanta, GA: Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. [Full-text at http://j.mp/INPO_Fukushima]

Joskow, P. L., & Parsons, J. E. (2012). The Future of Nuclear Power After Fukushima. Cambridge, MA: A Joint Center of the Department of Economics, MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Sloan School of Management. [Full-text at http://j.mp/MIT_Fukushima]

Miller, C., Cubbage, A., Dorman, D., Grobe, J., Holahan, G., & Sanfilippo, N. (2011). Recommendations for Enhancing Reactor Safety in the 21st Century: The Near-Term Task Force Review of Insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident. Washington, DC: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [Full-text at http://j.mp/USNRC_Fukushima]

Special Committee on Fukushima. (2012). Fukushima Daiichi: ANS Committee Report. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society. [Full-text at http://j.mp/ANS_Fukushima]

3. European Union

HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations. (2011). Chief Nuclear Inspector's report on lessons from Fukushima. Bootle, UK: Office for Nuclear Regulation. [Full-text at http://j.mp/UK_Fukushima]

Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN). (2012). Fukushima, one year later - Initial analyses of the accident and its consequences. (IRSN/DG/2012-003).  [Full-text at http://j.mp/IRSN_Fukushima]

4. International organizations

Dallos, G. (2013). Beyond Nuclear: The Triple Challenge Facing Japanese Utilities. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Greenpeace International. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Fukushima_GP]

Great East Japan Earthquake Expert Mission. (2011). IAEA International Fact Finding Expert Mission of The Fukushima Dai-Ichi NPP Accident Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Vienna, Austria: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). [Full-text at http://j.mp/IAEA_Fukushima]

Morris-Suzuki, T., Boilley, D., McNeill, D., Gundersen, A., & Fairewinds Associates. (2012). Lessons from Fukushima. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Greenpeace International. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Greenpeace_Fukushima]

Nuclear Energy Agency. (2012). Japan's Compensation System for Nuclear Damage: As Related to the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. Paris, France: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. [Full-text at http://j.mp/TEPCO_Compensation]

Nuclear Energy Agency. (2013). The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: OECD/NEA Nuclear Safety Response and Lessons Learnt. Paris, France: OECD/NEA Publishing. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Fukushima_NEA]

World Energy Council. (2012). World Energy Perspective: Nuclear Energy One Year After Fukushima. London, UK: World Energy Council. [Full-text at http://j.mp/WEC_Fukushima]

World Health Organization. (2013). Health risk assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, based on a preliminary dose estimation. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Fukushima_WHO]

5. Media

Bloomberg. (2012). Japan Quake One Year Anniversary. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Bloomberg_Fukushima]

Economist. (2012). The Dream That Failed. [Special Report]. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Economist_Fukushima]

New York Times, & International Herald Tribune. (2012). Japan — Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis. [Full-text at http://j.mp/NYT_Fukushima]

Spiegel. (2012). Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe. [Full-text at http://j.mp/Spiegel_Fukushima]

6. Scientific journals

Buesseler, K., Nies, H., Aoyama, M., Povinec, P., & Dai, M. (Eds.). (2013). Impacts of the Fukushima nuclear power plant discharges on the ocean. Biogeosciences Discussions, Special Issue. [Full-text at http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/special_issue100.html]

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Levelized Costs of Electricity Generation (LCOE) - 2012 Update


I updated the list in a new post for the year of 2013. Please move to the post cited below.

Park, H. (2013). Levelized Costs of Electricity Generation (LCOE) - 2013 Update [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://j.mp/LCOE_2013