Shinzo Abe was first elected Prime Minister of Japan in 2006. He made nuclear power and export of nuclear technology a cornerstone of his campaign. In March of 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake flooded a nuclear power plant on the coast of Fukushima prefecture in northeastern Japan. Three reactors melted down and there was an explosion that severely damaged a fourth reactor.
I have often blogged about problems with disposing of nuclear waste in the United States. I have also occasionally blogged about problems that other countries have with nuclear waste. The only other country that has problems similar to the U.S. is Russia.
I have blogged recently about Chinese nuclear weapons and Chinese nuclear policy. One problem that China does not have to deal with is the threat of a Taiwanese nuclear bomb but that was not always true.
I blog a lot about conventional nuclear fission power reactors but there are other types of nuclear reactors that extract energy from radioactive substances in different ways from the usual water cooled reactors in use at most nuclear power plants.
During the Presidential campaign and in the first weeks of his Presidency, President Trump said that NATO is obsolete and that U.S. nuclear protection of European NATO members might be conditional on those NATO members spending more money on their own defense. This new weakening of U.S.
I have written recent blog posts about Chinese nuclear weapons and policy. There are conflicting accounts of exactly how many nuclear warheads China currently possesses and what their policy really is. Some of these accounts are obviously false. Whether intentional or accidental, there are fake news stories circulating about China's nuclear arsenal.
