Robert Hoegerle

The way of No-Clear/ Nuclear Policy: Case study regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Robert Hoegerle

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,3, University of Padua (Facoltà di Scienze Politiche), course: Comparative politics, language: English, abstract: "Shiru mono wa iwazu, iu mono wa shirazu." "Those who know do not talk, those who talk do not know." -Japanese adage There is hardly any other saying to describe the state of affairs about the nuclear disaster in the previous months. While in the far away continent of Europe the news and the panic which got along with them, spread like wildfire, the Japanese nation run through a troubled phase of confusion and disinformation in a calm way. The two main actors of this play were and are the government ( Prime Minister Naoto Kan1 and his staff) and the responsible company TEPCO2 (abbreviation for: Tokyo Electric Power Company). Rather then learning by experience of nuclear incidents before, the whole political system made some drastic mistakes. I will attempt to investigate the main points and compare them with the best-known case of political failure - Chernobyl. Subsequently, there will be a view on the aftermaths in the nuclear policy worldwide, caused by the complex of themes.