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The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Satoko Oka Norimatsu ,
Sakai Yasuyuki  and
Koide Hiroaki
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Koide Hiroaki began his career as a nuclear engineer forty years ago drawn to the promise of nuclear power. Quickly, however, he recognized the flaws in Japan's nuclear power program and emerged as among the best informed of Japan's nuclear power critic. His cogent public critique of the nuclear village earned him an honourable form of purgatory as a permanent assistant professor at Kyoto University. Koide would pay a price in career terms, continuing his painstaking research on radio nuclide measurement at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute (KURRI) in the shadows. Until 3.11.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 31 , August 2011 , e5
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Footnotes

A Japanese translation of the introduction is available: http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/2011/08/truth-about-nuclear-power-japanese.html

References

Notes

1 See “In Japan, nuclear bestsellers reflect new debate,” The Washington Post with Foreign Policy, July 19, 2011.

2 See “Information sources in languages other than Japanese on the issue of Fukushima's children and allowable radiation dosage,” Peace Philosophy Centre, May 29, 2011.