Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan : A Trip to the Reactor / / by Morris Low
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| Autore: |
Low Morris
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| Titolo: |
Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan : A Trip to the Reactor / / by Morris Low
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 621.48072052 |
| 900 | |
| Soggetto topico: | History |
| Civilization - History | |
| History of Science | |
| History of Japan | |
| Cultural History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Japan History |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan |
| ISBN: | 3-030-47198-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910484892903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, . 2730-972X