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Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan = A Trip to the Reactor /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan/ by Morris Low.
Reminder of title:	A Trip to the Reactor /
Author:	Low, Morris.
Description:	XIII, 260 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47198-9
ISBN:	9783030471989

Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan = A Trip to the Reactor /
Low, Morris.

Visualizing Nuclear Power in JapanA Trip to the Reactor /[electronic resource] :by Morris Low. - 1st ed. 2020. - XIII, 260 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,2730-972X. - Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,.

1. Introduction: Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan -- 2. Before and After Hiroshima -- 3. Picturing Hiroshima -- 4. The Beginnings of Atoms for Peace in Japan -- 5. Nuclear Testing in the Pacific: The Lucky Dragon Incident and the Family of Man -- 6. Living in Fear: Nuclear Films -- 7. Making Atomic Dreams Real: 1956-1958 -- 8. Seeing Reactors at Tōkai-mura, Trade Fairs, Department Stores and in Films: 1957-1971 -- 9. Shaping the National Narrative: From Hiroshima to Fukushima and Beyond -- 10. Conclusion.

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.

ISBN: 9783030471989

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-47198-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.

LC Class. No.: D1-DX301

Dewey Class. No.: 509

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