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NOVANEWS Global Research News Hour Episode 175 By Michael Welch, Peter Kuznick, and Gordon Edwards   The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. ..To hasten the day when fear of the atom will begin to disappear from the minds of people, and the governments of the East and West, there are certain steps that can be taken now. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, New York City, 1953 LISTEN TO THE SHOW The island nation of Japan is ranked third in the world in terms of the number of functioning nuclear reactors on its territory. Why would the one country to experience the destructive potential of nuclear power in wartime, the culture that gave t...

NOVANEWS An Interview with Former Prime Minister Kan Naoto By Vincenzo Capodici and Shaun Burnie The Asia-Pacific Journal Introduction For more than two decades, the global nuclear industry has attempted to frame the debate on nuclear power within the context of climate change: nuclear power is better than any of the alternatives. So the argument went. Ambitious nuclear expansion plans inthe United States and Japan, two of the largest existing markets, and the growth of nuclear power in China appeared to show—superficially at least—that the technology had a future. At least in terms of political rhetoric and media perception, it appeared to be a winning argument. Then came March 11, 2011. Those most determined to promote nuclear power even cited the Fukushima Daiichi accident as...