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“The Stone Age Didn’t End Because We Ran out of Stones”
Nobuo Tanaka currently serves as Chairman of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Japan. Previously he served as Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability at the Institute of Energy...
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Japan’s 3/11: Dubious Progress at Rebuilding
The anniversary of Japan’s 3/11 is approaching. “3/11” is what the Japanese call the series of disasters which struck northern Japan in March of 2011; the earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi...
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Contamination of USS Ronald Reagan During Fukushima Response Underreported
Underreported at the time, the USS Ronald Reagan in responding to the Fukushima nuclear disaster was exposed to significant amounts of radiation.
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A Sane and Sober Look at the USS Reagan Radiation Contamination Incident
Brian Hanley examines the science behind the claims by sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan that they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation during the response to the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
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Japan’s Nuclear Gypsies: The Homeless, Jobless and Fukushima
The cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in northern Japan have revealed the plight of the Japanese unemployed, marginally employed day laborers and the homeless. They are called...
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Five Years of Forgetting: The Fukushima Disaster and Nuclear Amnesia
“People’s understanding of disasters will continue to be constructed by media. How media members frame the presence of risk and the nature of disasters matters.” – Celine Marie Pascale, American...
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Fukushima 2016: Photo Exhibitions
Two photographic exhibitions documenting Japan’s Fukushima disaster have been mounted this spring at New York’s Asia Society and Japan Society. Although these exhibits depict the same events, the...
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‘Nuclear Nation’: Surviving Fukushima. A Review
Although Nuclear Nation has been described as a hard hitting expose of the nuclear power industry, to my mind the overwhelming feeling is much more subtle. The film creates melancholy and sadness,...
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Review of the BBC’s This World: ‘Inside the Meltdown’
The BBC documentary, 'Inside the Meltdown,' on the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is oddly powerful.
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Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Market
In a few weeks it will be the one year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, which had all but soured the Japanese public’s appetite for nuclear energy. What once supplied 25...
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