Japanese Literature After Fukushima: A Dialogue
A dialogue between noted translator Motoyuki Shibata and Hideo Furukawa, one of Japan’s hottest young novelists. Novelist Hiromi Kawakami and haiku master Minoru Ozawa provide further comments.
A dialogue between noted translator Motoyuki Shibata and Hideo Furukawa, one of Japan’s hottest young novelists. Novelist Hiromi Kawakami and haiku master Minoru Ozawa provide further comments.
It is possible that the protogonists of nuclear technology will soon succeed in effacing the memory of Fukushima from the public mind, by taking advantage of the fact that the hydrocarbon resources of the world are fast depleting and by flaunting the anti-carbon climate concerns of the global community, to push the world towards a nuclear future.
The NEJM authors and others who propagate myths about the minimal casualties from Chernobyl and other accidents feed into a mindset that is leading to disastrous policy decisions. The only way to correct course is to identify the myths and the mythmakers.
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster it would thus be sensible to remind ourselves of what we really want.
The fishermen protesting the Kudankulam NPP could be doing their fellow countrymen a greater service than they currently realize.
The comparative research focused on the newspaper coverage of protest events in the city of Chennai. Four English-language dailies were studied – the Times of India, The Hindu, The New Indian Express and Deccan Chronicle, across a period of eight weeks.
Says Abe: “The government’s whole strategy for bringing the plant under control will have to be revised. The evacuees will never be able to return. They can’t clean up the radiation. Will the media report this? I’m waiting for that.”
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This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011. It was based on a talk delivered the night before [...]
Hearing a recent PIL against India’s current nuclear policy and the need for an independent nuclear regulator, the Supreme Court wanted to know about a few examples of an independent regulatory mechanism. Top nuclear expert A Gopalakrishnan presents the French , the Canadian, and the U.S.models (Editorial Comment in DNA) [...]
For very many years I have been a supporter of nuclear power plants, on the premise “Bomb No, but Power Yes”.
The proponents of nuclear power have been saying that it is cheap, green and can be a major part of the future energy policy.
Post-Fukushima, the market for nuclear power is changing latitudes. Here’s what’s at stake: As the full cost of the Fukushima nuclear accident continues to climb—Japanese officials now peg it at $64 billion or more—nuclear power’s future is literally headed south. Developed countries are slowing or shuttering their nuclear-power programs, while [...]
India, the world’s third-largest energy consumer, is cutting solar-power costs to a record by forcing project developers into auctions, helping avoid the spiraling renewable-energy subsidies that have hurt Europe. The lowest bid in India’s latest national auction on Dec. 2 came from Solairedirect SA, France’s second-largest producer, which offered to [...]
Nuclear power cannot provide a solution to the climate change crisis. Concerns about global warming and climate change have been exploited by the nuclear industry to promote atomic energy by dubbing it “clean”, “carbon-free” and environment-friendly.
As they say “War is too important to be left to the Generals”, the decision on Nuclear Power is too critical from the perspective of the overall welfare of our communities to be decided by a handful of people in the nuclear establishment.
AERB: Mera Joota Nahin hai Japani
Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactor than previously thought, to within a foot from breaching the crucial steel barrier, a new simulation showed Wednesday.
The anti-nuclear movement is starting to gather some momentum in India, particularly after the experience of the anti-nuclear protest at Koodankulam
While Germany struggles with the nuclear waste menace, Indian policy-makers are oblivious of the risk amid massive expansion of nuclear projects.
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