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Author Elliott, David, 1943-

Title Fukushima : impacts and implications / David Elliott
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 145 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot.
Contents Introduction: The nuclear back-story -- Fukushima: the immediate impacts -- Reactions in Japan and across Asia -- Reactions in Continental Europe -- Reactions in the UK -- The US and the rest of the world -- Analysis: political, economic and technological issues -- Reactions to Fukushima: contestation and trust -- Conclusions: The lessons of Fukushima -- End notes: Nuclear Technology and its heath impacts
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-138) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Kernkraftwerk Fukushima gnd
Subject Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Nuclear energy -- Government policy.
Nuclear energy -- Environmental aspects
Nuclear power & engineering -- Japan.
Comparative politics -- Japan.
Pollution & threats to the environment -- Japan.
Nuclear issues -- Japan.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Nuclear.
Technology.
Nuclear energy -- Environmental aspects
Nuclear energy -- Government policy
Kerntechnischer Unfall
Auswirkung
Kerntechnische Industrie
Nuclear power & engineering -- Japan.
Comparative politics -- Japan.
Pollution & threats to the environment -- Japan.
Nuclear issues -- Japan.
Technology.
Japan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137274335
1137274336
9781137274342
1137274344
1349445630
9781349445639