Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword 1 -- Foreword 2 -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The World after March 11, 2011 - Ripple Effect of the Fukushima Accident -- 1 Reliability and Nuclear Power -- Nuclear Accidents in History -- Nuclear Power Plants are not Atomic Bombs -- Is Nuclear Power Reliable? -- "Second-hand Contamination" - An Unfounded Notion -- Nuclear Power Plants: Economical and Safe -- Monitoring Imported Japanese Food -- Human Factors -- Paying Heed to Maintenance -- Nuclear Waste and Waste Management -- Impact of Nuclear Science and Technologies on Modern Society -- Social and National Security -- 2 Some Flowers Fall, and Again They Bloom -- Visit to Sendai During the Cherry Blossom Season -- Tohoku University -- 3 Different Responses Across the Waters -- Different Reactions to the Nuclear Accident -- 4 Aging and Reliability -- Law of Aging -- When Will Signs of Spring Replace the Old? -- 5 Transparent Management Guarantees Nuclear Safety -- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine -- TEPCO's Crisis Management -- Recent Events at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant -- Rules-based Management versus People-based Management -- 6 Th e Need for Quality Control -- An Ancient Doctor's Comment on Quality Control -- Performance of Power Plants -- In-breeding Encroaches upon Quality Control in Nuclear Plants -- 7 Don't Let Gossip Affect the Safe Operation of Nuclear Power -- Self-defeating Hearsay -- Th ree Elements in the Safety of Nuclear Power -- Nuclear Power and Nuclear Energy Industry in Japan -- South Korea: An Emerging Power of the 21st Century -- China: Nuclear Power House in the 21st Century -- Taiwan: Confounded by the Nuclear Power Issue -- Speaking from Evidence -- Th e Unsettling Element in Discussions about Nuclear Power.

Part II Environmental Protection, Occupational Safety and Innovation - A Spectrum of Energies -- 8 A Spectrum of Energy Sources -- A Brief History of Energies -- Energy Crisis -- Of the Spectrum of Energies, Which is Most Splendid? -- Sense and Sensibility -- 9 Facts about Background Radiation -- Where is the Nuclear-free Homestead? -- 10 Human Negligence of Occupational Safety Leads to Numerous Accidents -- Occupational Safety in Serious Jeopardy Right by Your Side -- The Unheeded Serious Problems of Occupational Safety -- Train Collisions Throughout the World -- Natural Calamities are Less Destructive than Man-made Accidents -- 11 When Will Environmental Pollution End? -- Th e Misleading and Mislabeling Food Products -- Th e Ubiquity of Biological and Chemical Sources of Pollution -- Non-nuclear Pollution Permeates the World -- Coal-fired Pollution Shocks and Global Warming -- Coal Mining -- Th e Melancholic Beauty of Idaho -- Which Way Forward: "Nuclear" or "Non-nuclear"? -- Passengers and Taxi Drivers -- 12 Non-nuclear Calamities Are Also Horrible -- Natural Calamities -- Man-made Disasters -- Horrible Consequences -- Seeking Enlightenment Instead of Chasing Shadows of An Illusion -- 13 Where Can We Find Safe Energy Sources? -- Where to Look for the Spring of Energy? -- Petroleum-producing Countries' Plans for Nuclear Power -- World-wide Trend in Building Nuclear Power Plants -- Essential Conditions for Safety Design of a Power Plant -- Ah Q's Story of Generating Electricity by Marsh Gas -- The Need for Rationality -- Ah Q's Story of Generating Electricity by Marsh Gas -- 14 Pick up Our Share of the Energy Cost -- Hike in European Electricity Prices Expected -- How Much Does Energy Cost? -- Th e Real Cost of Electricity -- Stop Food Waste -- Insatiable Desire for Energy -- Purity Endures Like the Lotus.

15 In Search of Innovation in Formulating Energy Policy -- Address the Energy Problem by Means of Innovation -- Scientific Innovation: Cornerstones of Safety and Reliability -- Th e Myth of Building a Nuclear Power Plant by the Sea -- Formulation of an Optimal Energy Policy -- Energy Conservation: Only a Precondition for the Formulation of an Energy Policy -- Smart Grid -- Democracy, Populism and Innovation -- 16 Practice Makes Great -- PhD Stands for… What? -- Putting Knowledge and Practice Together -- Ah Q's Daydream -- Appendix I -- Reliability Th rough the Ages -- Foreword -- The Essence of Reliability -- Reliability Bottleneck and Historical and Societal Track -- Black-dress Lane: An Embodiment of Reliability -- Public Construction from the Perspective of Reliability -- How Reliable Are High-tech Products? -- Stress, Strength and Aging -- Infant Mortality -- Nuclear Energy Industry -- Conclusion -- Appendix II -- Analyze the Crisis and Opportunity in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- A Dialogue with Chip Tsao -- Enjoy a Hot Spring and Eat Seafood -- Japanese "Nuclear Warriors" Didn't Die -- iPhone 4 and Radiation from Reclaimed Land -- Residents Nearby a Uranium Mine Live a Longer Life -- Way Kuo is Realistic and Truthful -- Death of Luo Fu's Son -- Postscript -- Bill Gates Discussing New Nuclear Reactor with China -- Technical Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Catastrophe -- Japan's NAIIC Report -- My Reflections -- A Story about Ted Kennedy -- A Trip to Fukushima on July 2, 2013 -- The Current Status of the Disaster-stricken Fukushima and its Prospects -- Additional Reading Materials -- Afterword -- Index.