After Fukushima: The Silence of Environmental Organizations on Nuclear Catastrophe

Michael Dreiling & Nicholas Lougee & Tomoyasu Nakamura — 2015-09-22T05:00:00Z

The nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima plants in Japan in 2011 raised global awareness of the massive dangers inherent in nuclear energy and led to the shutdown of almost all reactors in the country. Today, Japan is reopening reactors despite public opinion against it. In this article, the authors show that the silence of most environmental organizations reveals their widespread co‑optation by a political and industrial establishment that has, since the Kyoto Protocol, promoted nuclear energy

- Essays / catastrophe, disaster, environment, energy, nuclear, Japan, global warming, mobilization

The risk of nuclear accident: a territorial approach

Ambroise Pascal & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-02-01T08:21:22Z

How many people live in the vicinity of French nuclear power stations? Recent events – notably in Japan, but also in France – highlight the urgent need to be able to predict the possible effects of a nuclear accident on surrounding territories. Here, Ambroise Pascal identifies two key criteria for such an estimation: residential density and land use.
In the foreword of his renowned work Risk Society (1986), sociologist Ulrich Beck declared that the fear induced by technology would create a

- Debates / France, risk, energy, nuclear

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After Fukushima: The Silence of Environmental Organizations on Nuclear Catastrophe

The risk of nuclear accident: a territorial approach