ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by examining the efforts after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident as a real-world experiment. It looks into three different modes of reordering space after the Fukushima Daiichi accident: map making, material demarcation practices, and displacement. The case of Fukushima reminds that predictions of potential risk are not only about the nuclear, but also about people's lives and how they can be lived in a situation of disrupted trust and profound uncertainty. The chapter focuses on a specific experimental episode, namely, the spatial interventions performed after the accident with the hope of lowering human and environmental risk, upholding the image of the region, and assuring the survival of the sociotechnical imaginary built around nuclear energy production. It examines different radiation and evacuation maps, analyzes practices of physically defining/imposing/self-constructing zones of non- or limited habitation, and reflects on the efforts of collecting and "re-localizing" radioactive soil, thus redefining the space it had covered before.
