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Koppenborg, Florentine
Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance, 06/2023Book Chapter
Every crisis offers an opportunity for change. After 3.11, many scholars asked whether Japan would phase out nuclear power altogether. The nuclear phaseout debate (discussed in chapter 2) took place amid large antinuclear demonstrations but resulted in no more than a vague DJP government decision to reduce Japan’s dependence on nuclear power. One reason was severe nuclear industry opposition to a zero nuclear power policy. Soon after, the pronuclear LDP won the 2012 general elections in a landslide victory, public demonstrations subsided, and pro-nuclear actors reasserted the necessity of nuclear power in the public discourse, all of which were taken
