Hard choices: Japan’s post-Fukushima energy policy in the twenty-first century

Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery After Japan's 3/11

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 140-155

  Scalise, Paul J ^a  

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EID: 84898165673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203124109     Document Type: Chapter

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