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C'est la plus grande catastrophe nucléaire de ces trente dernières années. Le 11 mars 2011, à la suite d'un séisme et d'un tsunami d'une ampleur quasi inégalée, la centrale japonaise de Fukushima est hors de contrôle. Autour d'elle se crée une «zone interdite», contaminée par des rejets radioactifs très importants. Le jour même, François-Xavier Ménage est envoyé en tant que reporter au plus près de la catastrophe. Il retournera une dizaine de fois au Japon au cours des années suivantes, afin de saisir tous les rouages et les enjeux d'un accident dont les conséquences se font encore ressentir aujourd'hui. Ce livre retrace cinq ans d'un reportage saisissant. Auprès des «décontaminateurs», qui risquent leur vie pour neutraliser, parfois en vain, la radioactivité. Auprès des «kamikazes», ces habitants qui ont décidé de rester dans le périmètre dévasté, contre les recommandations des autorités. Auprès des antinucléaires. Auprès, aussi, des décideurs de l'époque, rongés par les regrets, qui évoquent mensonges et omissions, parfois au plus haut niveau de l'État... Autant de portraits qui permettent de mieux comprendre les répercussions d'un drame avant tout humain. Mais le débat se poursuit bien au-delà du Japon. Pourquoi la France est-elle pointée du doigt ? Comment l'hypothèse d'un accident similaire à celui de Fukushima est-elle évoquée par le gendarme du nucléaire ? Est-on vraiment à l'abri ?

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011

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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. --- Radioactive pollution

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Japanese literature --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011, in literature. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011, in motion pictures. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- History and criticism --- Influence.

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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. --- Nuclear energy --- Radiation.

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"In RADIATION AND REVOLUTION, political critic and activist Sabu Kohso positions the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster as an impetus for a renewed planetary politics. For Kohso, the "Event" offers an insight into the tension of, one the one hand, the World, as defined by capitalist nation-states, and on the other hand, the Earth, which is driven by interconnected planetary flows and entanglements. Focusing particularly on the effect of the Fukushima disaster on revolutionary politics, Kohso outlines three conceptual and eschatological ways to think about the Event: Disaster, Catastrophe, and Apocalypse. In this schema, Disaster signifies the real experience of people in the world: the immediate devastation brought on by nuclear disaster and the consequential tsunami, and the ongoing havoc radionuclides wreak on the planet. Catastrophe points to the failure of political and social institutions, and the rearrangement of power in the wake of nuclear disaster. Lastly, Apocalypse speaks to the affective and agential aspects of the disaster, and how people experience the aftermath of Fukushima. While Kohso readily admits that eschatological views can be harnessed by capitalist nation-states as a means to reproduce under the guise of patriotism and redevelopment, he also crucially argues that eschatology has been used historically by revolutionary people as a means to think about a rebirth of the world. In the latter reading, which Kohso suggests we follow, eschatological views of disaster provide a space for people to imagine other types of planetary cohabitation that is not limited to capitalist nation-states. The book comprises four chapters and an epilogue. Chapter 1 focuses on the Disaster of the Event, and offers an account of the nuclear disaster drawn from the author's own observations, stories from friends, and published reports in Japan. Chapter 2 illuminates the context for the event, providing a geo-history of the Japanese nation-state as an insular territory constituted in response to catastrophes, both natural (atmospheric and tectonic) and man-made (Western colonialism). In this chapter, Kohso frames Japan as a prosperous society bookended by two nuclear disasters: Hiroshima/Nagasaki and Fukushima. Chapter 3 tackles the mechanism whereby nuclear production continues to proliferate despite the calamities it has caused. Here the sense of Apocalypse is the predetermined future of a radioactive planet, rather than the immediate end of the world-a course charted by 'nuclearized capitalism' or capitalism that ensures its endless reproduction by assimilating itself to the nuclear industry. Chapter 4 compares the revolutionary struggles of 1968 to those of the post-Fukushima world. In the epilogue, Kohso poses questions about the "End": What does the end of Japan look like? What does the end of the human world mean?"--

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. --- Nuclear energy --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011