Scientists and a journalist examine the lessons of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

"In 1982 members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission resisted the need to plan for worst-case scenarios at nuclear plants. The chances of a radiation leak causing widespread death, one member said, were “less than the possibility of a jumbo jet crashing into a football stadium during the Superbowl.” Unfortunately, at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, that jumbo jet came down, reports Miami Herald.

In a new book titled 'Fukushima', two scientists, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental group, recount the unlikely story of an earthquake that unleashed a tsunami that caused three nuclear meltdowns.