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Kodansha Comics

Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

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Product Type:
Trade Paperback
Product Line:
Kodansha Comics
Series:
Ichi-F
Author:
Kazuto Tatsuta
ISBN:
9781632363558
Pages:
536
Language:
English

Release Date:
Mar 7, 2017

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A worker assigned to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant (designated ""1-F"") in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami wrote and drew this memoir, depicting his part in the dangerous and unprecedented cleanup effort. This frank depiction will appeal to nonfiction readers eager for a unique, firsthand look inside the causes, consequences, and long road back from the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
  • Will read left to right for appeal to mainstream American readers.

    • Ages 13 and up.
    The strongest earthquake in Japanese history hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, and the resulting tsunami killed over 15,000 people. But, for residents of Fukushima Prefecture, the nightmare was just beginning. The world watched as the Fukushima Dai-ichi (Fukushima #1, or 1-F) nuclear plant, its safety equipment drowned by the tsunami, experienced a slow and catastrophic meltdown. Over the following years, the cleanup effort would be fraught with controversy, setbacks, and, most of all, danger for the workers who had to step inside the stricken plant, still bathed in radiation. One of those workers tells his story in Ichi-F.

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