How Japan Buys Love for Nuclear Power

There are 54 nuclear reactors in Japan . That ’s about half the bit in the US — for a country 1/25th the size of it . So how did nuclear become monolithic on a tiny island ? Money , the NYT report . Buying the people .

Even throughout the Fukushima disaster , popular resistance to Japan ’s sprawling atomic adoration has been weak . And why?The NYT suggestsa constant flow of easy cash is making the Japanese reluctant to quetch their radioactive use : “ Nothing other than a nuclear plant will bring money here . That ’s for certain , ” explains a councilman from a small Japanese Ithiel Town . “ What else can an stranded Ithiel Town like this do except host a atomic plant ? ”

Japan ’s nuclear diligence has gotten people like him — and countless others — hooked on atomic hard cash . Small towns and metropolis are often contradict to a novel reactor , fearing environmental risk , until they ’re simply buy out .

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Take the township of Kashima . It was home to a fishing - based saving , threatened by the mental synthesis of a fresh reactor . To swing citizen of the rural , low - income sphere , the Nipponese government build a monolithic sports composite , full with tennis courts , a baseball area , and an olympic pool .

Such pro - atomic gifting is the average . Japanese law mandate that a slice of tax money be directed to towns that harbour nuclear plants , where public works and subsidies often bowl over hesitant occupant . But these subsidy often eventually dry up , impart municipalities screwed , having assumed nuke money would keep them floating forever . The next stride ? taste to get another wad : “ Putting aside whether ‘ drugs ’ is the right formula , ” explain the former regulator of Fukushima Prefecture , “ if you take [ the money ] one sentence , you ’ll definitely need to take them again . ” [ NYT , Photo by Getty / Koichi Kamoshida ]

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