Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk

Majia Holmer Nadesan is a professor at Arizona State University. She has published a number of books examining the bioethics and biopolitics of social governance and human welfare: Constructing Autism, Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life, and Governing Childhood: Biopolitical Strategies of Childhood Education and Management. Her work addresses how powerful market forces, state sovereignty, and expert knowledge shape public health and welfare.

• 1. Introduction 2. Why Nuclear Power 3. Fukushima Disaster 4. Radiation Effects 5. Conclusion

"The most thorough, documented analysis of the radiation effects of the Fukushima disaster I know of, with an unsparing account of 68 years of nuclear denial." Charles Perrow, Yale University, USA