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From Muscle to Machinery - How Industrialization Increased Japan’s Energy Demand and Exposed Its Vulnerabilities
How Japan overlooked energy security in its pursuit of rapid industrialization
Forged by Crisis: How External Shocks Reshape Societies and Drive Technological Change — Exploring the Case of Japan
External shocks — the Cuban Missile Crisis, Black Death, OPEC Embargo, WWII, and Perry’s arrival in Japan — forced lasting political, economic, and…
Why do we fear Nuclear Energy? - looking at its link to Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution
how the dual imagery of good and evil got associated with nuclear energy | why do we fear nuclear energy
The resistance to revolutions in Science
beliefs challenged | scientists as disrupters | resistance breeds anxiety
Science and Alchemy differed in their method, not in their fantasy
rise of alchemy | how science replaced alchemy | fantasy of science
Reversibility as a design consideration for geological repository
the idea of reversibility | intergenerational fairness | achieving confidence | the limits.
The possibility of retrieving nuclear waste from a geological repository
the value of retrievability | obsticles involved | costs | safety.
Can harmful radioactivity escape from a deep geological repository?
the fight against groundwater | heat can complicate things.
Geological repository — a multi-barrier approach to ensuring long-term isolation of nuclear waste
the idea of multiple barriers | the various barriers employed | the roadblocks.
Long-term isolation of nuclear waste - is there a solution?
intergenerational fairness | step-wise approach.
Long-term isolation of nuclear waste - technical discussion
a technical discussion
Dry cask storage is a superior interim storage solution for nuclear waste
dry cask storage | passive systems.
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