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On Forgetting Fukushima

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Robert Jacobs
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This month the media and social networks are busy remembering Fukushima on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, but what we are really observing is the beginning of the work of forgetting Fukushima. Fukushima is taking its place alongside the many forgotten nuclear disasters of the last 70 years. Like Mayak and Santa Susana, soon all that will be left of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are the radionuclides that will cycle through the ecosystem for millennia. In that sense we are internalizing Fukushima into our body unconsciousness.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , March 2016 , e2
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1 Rob Nixon, “Slow Violence, Gender and the Environmentalism of the Poor,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vols. 13:2-14:1 (2006-7): 14.