Book ID: CBB713526817

Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor (2020)

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This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan’s future. The idea of “atoms for peace” and the importance of US-Japan relations were emphasized in exhibitions and in films. Despite the emergence of an anti-nuclear movement, the dream of civilian nuclear power and the “good atom” nevertheless prevailed and became more accepted. By the late 1950s, a school trip to see a reactor was becoming a reality for young Japanese, and major events such as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1970 Osaka Expo seemed to reinforce the narrative that the Japanese people were destined for a future led by science and technology that was powered by the atom, a dream that was left in disarray after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

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Review Maxime Polleri (2021) Review of "Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 83-86). unapi

Review Ruselle Meade (2022) Review of "Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 209-210). unapi

Review Yuki Miyamoto (July 2022) Review of "Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor". Technology and Culture (pp. 908-909). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kasperski, Tatiana
Kōichirō Kokubun
Richard Wolfson
Eckart Conze
Tanja Penter
Matthew Cotton
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology and society
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Nuclear industry
Technology and politics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Japan
Russia
Ghana
Central Asia
Pakistan
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