Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan A Trip to the Reactor
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
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Morris Low
Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan A Trip to the Reactor
Morris Low School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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To my mother, Eileen Low (1932–2019)
Preface
This book explains why the Japanese people embraced nuclear power despite having witnessed its destructive force in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It highlights the importance of the media, exhibitions, films and tours in helping to achieve a relative consensus regarding the need for the development of nuclear power that ultimately facilitated the transfer of American nuclear technology. The idea of atoms for peace served to separat
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