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The Japanese Nuclear Power Option: What Price?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Arjun Makhijani  and
Endo Tetsuya
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With the price of oil skyrocketing to more than $100 a barrel, many nations including Japan and the United States, are looking to the nuclear power option among others. Is nuclear power a viable option in a world of expensive and polluting fossil fuels? Japan Focus, in the first of a series of articles on energy options centered on renewable options and the environmental costs of energy options, presents the case for nuclear power recently made by Endo Tetsuya and a critique of the nuclear option by Arjun Makhijani.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 2008 , e16
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