| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
impacts and implications |
| Author: |
ElliottDavid, 1943- |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 145 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Palgrave pivot |
| Subject: |
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. - |
| Subject: |
Nuclear energy - Government policy. - |
| Subject: |
Nuclear energy - Environmental aspects. - |
| Subject: |
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137274335 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 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 beclme 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. |
| ISBN: |
9781137274335 (PDF) |
| ISBN: |
1137274336 (PDF) |
| ISBN: |
9781137274342 (EPUB) |
| ISBN: |
1137274344 (EPUB) |
| Content Note: |
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. |