scholarly journals Experiences from the Fukushima Disaster

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Scheel
Keyword(s):  
Fukushima Disaster

Why Italian Nuclear Energy Policy Failed Twice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Franchino
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Coalition Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Nuclear Energy Policy ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

The history of nuclear energy policy in Italy is characterized by major shifts. After being a world leader in nuclear energy production in the 1960s, the country stopped its programme in the 1980s. An attempt at rejuvenating and expanding nuclear energy in the early 2000s came to an end after the Fukushima disaster. In both instances a referendum was held. Party competition, coalition politics, changes in government, and Italy’s institutional features, in particular the provisions for holding referendums, are the main factors explaining these policy reversals. The chapter concludes that a relaunch of the nuclear energy programme does not seem impossible, but is unlikely for the foreseeable future.

scholarly journals Nuclear power in Australia: A comparative analysis of public opinion regarding climate change and the Fukushima disaster

Energy Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 644-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanne K. Bird ◽  
Katharine Haynes ◽  
Rob van den Honert ◽  
John McAneney ◽  
Wouter Poortinga
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 226-275
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
Legal Barriers ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

Japan - Fukushima Disaster and Reform "Jotaro Yokoyama" 226 Nigeria - Renewable Energy Sources "Legal Barriers and Potential" (Damilola S. Olawuyi) 233 India - Greenhouse Gas Mitigation "Bharat H. Desai" 238 Bangladesh - Climate Change and Vulnerability "Local and Global Responsibility" (Md. Kamal Uddin) 252 Australia - The Great Barrier Reef "Maritime Spatial Planning" (Daud Hassan) 259 South Africa - Mining and Legal Measures "Michael Kabai" 270

Thaumazein at the Nuclear Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Nobuo Kazashi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Accidents ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Citizen Scientist ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Right ◽  
Reflective Essay ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

This reflective essay brings to light the career and thought of nuclear chemist Jinzaburo Takagi (1938–2000), who devoted his whole career to the critique of nuclear power generation and the promotion of citizen-centered science. Looking at his life history, one recognizes some clear turning points. However, Takagi’s true engagement with the nuclear question began when he came face-to-face with the ubiquitous contamination of the earth by human-made radiation. It was a deep, revelatory astonishment that shook Takagi into radical questioning of his vocation as a scientist. It was, so to speak, an experience of “thaumazein at the nuclear anthropocene,” involving his whole person as a human being. In 1975 Takagi co-founded Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo, and he became a catalytic “citizen scientist” in the anti-nuclear power movements through his nation-wide and international activities spanning over a quarter-century. Takagi was a prolific and engaged writer, and he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1997. Soon after, however, he was diagnosed with a variety of last-stage cancers. He penned books entitled To Live as a Citizen-Scientist, Liberation from Nuclear Power: Nine Spells that Would Annihilate Japan, and Why Are Nuclear Accidents Repeated? These books would be read widely, though quite belatedly and with deep regret, after the Fukushima disaster in 2011. This essay is a look at the warning messages Takagi emphasized in the books he left as his testaments not to repeat the disaster.

The moral construction of worry about radiation exposure: Emotion, knowledge, and tests

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 635-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aug Nishizaka
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Internal Exposure ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Moral Construction ◽  
Fukushima Disaster ◽  
Do So

In the analysis of video recordings of the interactions between a doctor and the examinees following internal radiation exposure tests at a hospital in Fukushima Prefecture, I explore how the participants address one of the most serious consequences of the Fukushima disaster, that is, their concerns about radioactive materials. To do so, this study employs conversation analysis. The doctor’s presentation of the test results provides the examinees with a place to express relief and also makes relevant the justification work related to the expression of relief. In conclusion, I consider how the internal exposure tests also function as a communication tool in the context in which residents from affected areas face potential difficulties in expressing their worry about radiation.

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