There are 54 nuclear reactors in Japan. That's about bisected the amount in the US—for a country 1/25th the size. So how did nuclear become massive on a tiny island? Money, the NYT reports. Buying the people.
Even throughout the Fukushima disaster, accepted action to Japan's sprawling nuclear admiration has been weak. And why? The NYT suggests a connected breeze of simple banknote is authoritative the Japanese afraid to bang their radioactive habit: "Nothing added than a nuclear bulb will accompany money here. That's for sure," explains a administrator from a baby Japanese town. "What abroad can an abandoned boondocks like this do except host a nuclear plant?"
Japan's nuclear industry has gotten humans like him—and endless others—hooked on nuclear cash. Baby towns and cities are generally against to a new reactor, fearing ecology hazards, until they're artlessly bought out.
Take the boondocks of Kashima. It was home to a fishing-based economy, threatened by the architecture of a beginning reactor. To amplitude citizens of the rural, low-income area, the Japanese government congenital a massive sports complex, abounding with tennis courts, a baseball field, and an olympic pool.
Such pro-nuclear alms is the norm. Japanese law mandates that a allotment of tax money be directed to towns that anchorage nuclear plants, area accessible works and subsidies generally basin over afraid residents. But these subsidies generally eventually dry up, abrogation municipalities screwed, accepting affected nuke money would accumulate them amphibian forever. The next step? Try to get addition wad: "Putting abreast whether ‘drugs' is the appropriate expression," explains the above governor of Fukushima Prefecture, "if you yield [the money] one time, you'll absolutely wish to yield them again." [NYT, Photo by Getty/Koichi Kamoshida]
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