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General Non-Fiction

Fukushima.Il sole si scioglie

(Melting sun)

Adriano Salani Editore, October 2021, pp.516

On March 11th 2011, a 15-metre tsunami annihilated long stretches of Japanese coastline, killing almost 16,000 people. In what became the most expensive industrial accident of all time, flooded cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failed as hundreds of isolated men and women battled to save three reactors from destruction, with the fate of the entire country balanced on a knife-edge. Few people understand what took place there, despite its large-scale ramifications. Even fewer know why it happened, nor how a cutting-edge country — equally famous for its earthquakes as its world-leading technologies — could be so unprepared for a tsunami. Ten years later, enough information has finally emerged to answer the question.

Melting Sun is the first book to explain the Fukushima disaster via the complete troubled history of nuclear power in Japan, retelling little-known events spanning over 150 years to describe the formation and expansion of Japan’s monopolistic power industry and how the island nation evolved from the first victim of atomic energy in World War II to its most ardent supporter. This complete history has never been written outside Japan, and existing non-academic books have done a poor job of explaining the Fukushima disaster. None present the broader historical context: that Japan has had more severe nuclear accidents than every other nation.

It is a story of innovation and determination, but also of political and industry collusion, deception, overconfidence, failure and, ultimately, death. With each scandal, with each lie, each accident and cover-up, a clique of politicians, lobbyists, academics and media organisations fought to prevent serious reform. From a nuclear ship stranded at sea after leaking radiation on its maiden voyage to the unimaginable final days of two men treated for extreme over-exposure, to Fukushima itself — the only accident comparable with the infamous Chernobyl disaster.

 

 

 

Adriano Salani Editore, October 2021, pp.516

Rights Sold

World Arabic rights: Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing; China: Ginkgo (Simplified Chinese); Korea: Brainstore Publishing.

English World Rights reserved to the author.

Option publishers: World Spanish rights: Duomo Ediciones; Turkey: Indigo Kitap.

Andrew Leatherbarrow

Andrew Leatherbarrow is currently the greatest expert on the Chernobyl plant nuclear disaster. He was also the consultant on the filming of the HBO TV series Chernobyl.
He first got the idea to write a detailed and documented account in 2011, after taking part in an organised trip to the location of the disaster and the neighbouring ghost city of Pripyat. On this occasion, the author took the pictures which are now in this book. His new book, Melting Sun, focuses on the more recent disaster at the Japanese plant of Fukushima.

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