Ana Palacio
Fukushima, Europe's Nuclear Test
MADRID – Seen from Europe, the irrationality of the political and media discourse over nuclear energy has, if anything, increased and intens…
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One year after Japan’s triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, Project Syndicate contributors examine the country's recovery, the future of nuclear power, and the lessons to be drawn from Fukushima.
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Yukiya Amano
Beyond Fukushima
VIENNA – Nuclear power has become safer since the devastating accident one year ago at Fukushima, Japan. It will become safer still in the c…
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Martin Freer
The Fukushima Syndrome
BIRMINGHAM – The dramatic events that unfolded at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant after last year’s tsunami are commonly refer…
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Margareta Wahlström
Japan’s Resilience Lessons
NEW YORK – Buried in the coverage of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake is a success story of which the world should not lose sight, be…
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Jürgen Trittin
The Post-Nuclear Transition
BERLIN – The Fukushima disaster in March reminded the world, 25 years after Chernobyl, that nuclear energy is anything but clean, secure, an…
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Masahiro Matsumura
Japan’s Revenge of the Mandarins
OSAKA – Ever since the huge earthquake that hit Japan’s Pacific coast at Tohoku on March 11, 2011, the country’s mass media has obsessively …
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Gareth Evans
Nuclear Disarmament’s Midnight Hour
CANBERRA – Last month, the Doomsday Clock’s hands were moved a minute closer to midnight by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the respe…
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Yuriko Koike
Japan’s Rubble Economy
TOKYO – On March 11, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. A…
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Mikhail Gorbachev
A Farewell to Nuclear Arms
MOSCOW – Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced…
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Heizo Takenaka
Will the Sun Still Rise?
TOKYO – The scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March was far greater than even the authorities’ worst scenarios foresa…
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