The Post-Fukushima Legacy: Nuclear Energy in Asia, South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Industry
NOVANEWS
By Lauren Richardson and Mel Gurtov
Featured image: The Fukushima disaster of March 11, 2011
Introduction: Nuclear Energy in Asia
by Mel Gurtov
The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 has raised serious questions about nuclear power.
In our work since Fukushima, we have tried to answer two questions: What is the current status of nuclear energy in Asia? Does nuclear power have a future in East Asia? By answering those questions, we hope to contribute to the global debate about nuclear energy. To be sure, questions of such magnitude can rarely be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Decisions on energy are made at the national level, on the basis of both objective factors such as cost-effectiveness and notions of the national interest, and less objective ones, s...