[Dialogue] The Fukushima Problem: From the Nuclear Powerplant Disaster to Contaminated Water Release / Nam Sang-wook, Song Kiho, Oh Eunjeong, Lee Heon-seok
The Quarterly Changbi 201, Autumn 2023
Abstract
“Dialogue” looks into the problem of the Fukushima Wastewater Release, a highly controversial current global issue. Moderated by scholar of Japanese literature Nam Sang-wook, three participants—Attorney Song Kiho, scholar of atomic damage Oh Eunjeong, and denuclearization activist Lee Heon-seok—discuss from various angles the hidden aspects of this nuclear powerplant accident, the origin of the current wastewater release plan, the nature of nuclear industries, and practical issues of nuclear wastewater release, rather than focusing only on the current Fukushima wastewater dumping. A noteworthy endeavor, it deals with critical issues of our time while considering ways to overcome our society’s broken system of coping with disasters and its crisis of democracy, as well as urging international solidarity in this arena.