The Fukushima Catastrophe: To What End? (Global University for Sustainability Book Series)

About the Global U Book Series
Foreword: Not Again, Please, Never Again
Downwinder Nightmares
Never Again?
Looking for Hope
Foreword: Charting Contested Contours of Sustainability, Development, Social and Ecological Justice
Preface
Contents
About the Authors
1 Introduction: No Solutions in Sight, Making Possible the Impossible—Lau Kin Chi
2 Introduction: Education for Ecological Justice and Social Justice—Cultivating the Capacity for Affect, Thinking, Autonomy and Action—Lau Kin Chi
	The Tokyo Olympics
	Radioactive Nuclear Contaminated Water
	Personal Experience
	Moving on Under Stress
	Message to Teachers, Students, and Youths
	Notes
3 Introduction: When We Talk About Nuclear Energy, What Are We Talking About? Huang Xiaomei
4 Introduction: We Are in a Critical State—He Zhixiong
5 What Happened in Fukushima?
	Notes
6 Natural Disasters or Human-Caused Calamity
	Notes
7 Fairy Tale of Astro Boy
	Notes
8 Three Questions on Nuclear Power
	First Question: Is Nuclear Power Good for Environmental Protection?
	Second Question: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
	Third Question: Is Nuclear Power Cheap?
	Are There No Alternatives to Supply Electricity Other Than Nuclear Power Generation?
	Notes
9 The Long Road Home
	Notes
10 Revival? Clearing Evacuees to Zero?
	Notes
11 Glint of Hope Ignited by the Olympic Torch?
	Notes
12 Where did Contaminated Substances Go?
	Trees and Branches Cut from 89 Hectares of Forests2
	3519 Containers of Radioactive Soil Used in Filtration3
	200,000 Cubic Meters of Radioactive Debris4
	Disposing of Protective Gear
	14 Million Cubic Meters of Contaminated Soil
	Notes
13 Heart of Darkness—The Molten Reactor Core
	Reactor Number 1
	Reactor Number 2
	Reactor Number 3
	Notes
14 Returning to the Scene: “Back Then, How Nice It Would Have Been, If Only …”
	Notes
15 Absent Supervision
	Notes
16 Radioactive Contamination Spread Worldwide—The Threat from Nuclear-Contaminated Water
	Notes
17 Who Protects Decontamination Workers and Nuclear Energy Workers?
	Notes
18 Mourning of Nature
	Notes
19 From Nuclear Weapon to Nuclear Energy, From Nuclear Energy to Nuclear Weapon
	Notes
20 The People’s Self Rescue
	Actions by Society
	Keeping Watch Over the Children
	Keeping Watch Over the Land
	Anti-Nuclear Movements
	Notes
Epilogue: Resonance that Lit up the Earth