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Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance

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Availability:In StockContributor:Florentine KoppenborgPublish date:2023-06-15Pages:234
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501770043ISBN-10:1501770047UPC:9781501770043Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Power Resources, Ethnic Studies, WorldBook Topic:Nuclear, Asian Studies, AsianSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SC9E0M62AM

In Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance, Florentine Koppenborg argues that the regulatory reforms taken up in the wake of the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, directly and indirectly raised the costs of nuclear power in Japan. The Nuclear Regulation Authority resisted capture by the nuclear industry and fundamentally altered the environment for nuclear policy implementation. Independent safety regulation changed state-business relations in the nuclear power domain from regulatory capture to top-down safety regulation, which raised technical safety costs for electric utilities. Furthermore, the safety agency's extended emergency preparedness regulations expanded the allegorical backyard of NIMBY demonstrations. Antinuclear protests, mainly lawsuits challenging restarts, incurred additional social acceptance costs. Increasing costs undermined pronuclear actors' ability to implement nuclear power policy and caused a rift inside the "nuclear village." Small nuclear safety administration reforms were, in fact, game changers for nuclear power politics in Japan.

Koppenborg's findings contribute to the vibrant conversations about the rise of independent regulatory agencies, crisis as a mechanism for change, and the role of nuclear power amid global interest in decarbonizing our energy supply.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501770043ISBN-10:1501770047UPC:9781501770043Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Power Resources, Ethnic Studies, WorldBook Topic:Nuclear, Asian Studies, AsianSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SC9E0M62AM

Florentine Koppenborg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Technical University of Munich.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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