ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Nuclear Village’s rebuilding of pronuclear discourse and the stories that challenge the discourse. In his speech to the International Olympic Committee, pitching Tokyo as the host of the 2020 Summer Olympic, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared that Fukushima was “under control.” Ten years later, many issues, including water contamination and decommissioning challenges, remain, and the cleanup is estimated to take several decades and cost over US$600 billion. Notwithstanding, the narrative by the utilities and the state advances the theme of “lessons from Fukushima” where the lessons are framed as a matter of more advanced technology to control future disasters and the theme of “successful recovery of Fukushima communities.” The last part of the chapter introduces the stories that challenge this narrative and considers the implications of the pronuclear discourse.
