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Fukushima

Impacts and Implications

By: D. Elliott

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Hardcover | 30 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 led Japan, and many other countries, to change their energy policies. Following Germany's example, some adopted nuclear phase-out plans, focusing instead on renewable energy . Even heavily nuclear-reliant France began to consider a phase-out, and some developing countries in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific area rethought their nuclear plans. David Elliott reviews the disaster and its global impacts, looking in detail at public and governmental reactions as the scale of the disaster became clear, and at the social, environmental, economic, technological and political implications in Japan and worldwide. He asks whether growing opposition to nuclear power around the world spells the end of the global nuclear renaissance.

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List of Tables	p. viii
Introduction: The Nuclear Back-Story	p. 1
Nuclear power: early ups and downs	p. 2
The nuclear renaissance	p. 3
Fukushima: The Immediate Impacts	p. 6
The Fukushima accident	p. 7
Aftermath	p. 9
Reactions in Japan and across Asia	p. 16
Impacts on Japan and initial responses	p. 17
The alternatives to nuclear power	p. 20
Fukushima's legacy: a breakdown of trust	p. 24
Reactions across the Asia-Pacific region	p. 26
Reactions in Continental Europe	p. 31
Europe: strong reactions in the West	p. 32
Germany confirms its nuclear exit	p. 32
Will Germany succeed?	p. 33
Reactions in Italy	p. 37
Reactions in France	p. 38
Reactions in the rest of continental Europe	p. 41
Reactions in the UK	p. 44
A muted response	p. 45
Shifting views	p. 46
An anomalous response?	p. 49
Reactions in the US and the Rest of the World	p. 54
Reactions in the US	p. 55
Reactions in the rest of the world	p. 58
Analysis: Political, Economic and Technological Issues	p. 62
Reactions to Fukushima - and to nuclear power	p. 63
Technological choices	p. 65
Political orientations	p. 68
Other patterns of response	p. 69
Economic issues	p. 71
Energy choices: the contested future	p. 76
Reactions to Fukushima: Contestation and Trust	p. 80
The spread of opposition	p. 81
The role of the media	p. 84
Whom to trust?	p. 88
Fukushima's legacy	p. 92
What happens next?	p. 95
Conclusions: The Lessons of Fukushima	p. 99
The future of nuclear power and reactions to it	p. 100
Some possible outcomes from future accidents	p. 102
The energy policy lessons of Fukushima	p. 103
Appendix: Nuclear Technology and Its Health Impacts	p. 106
Energy and power units	p. 107
Reactor types, fuels and operational issues	p. 107
Radiation units and impacts	p. 110
Fukushima doses	p. 112
Credits and Afterword	p. 113
References	p. 115
Index	p. 139
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