Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2023
Authors:	Florentine Koppenborg
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-7004-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Nuclear power & engineering
LSN:	1-5017-7004-7
Barcode:	9781501770043

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