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The Price of Pork-Barrel Patronage: Beggars Can’t be Choosers

In: Japan Inc. on the Brink

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  • Susan Carpenter

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In 2001, although 53 percent of the Niigata electorate voted against the use of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) METI refused to budge on its long-term objectives for the use of MOX and fast breeder reactors and began looking for other prefectures to build pluthermal plants. Ehime Prefecture was fair game because there was already a nuclear power plant hosted by the small fishing village of Ikata, which is located on Japan’s narrowest peninsula and the westernmost point of Shikoku, Japan’s fourth largest island. Its industry is limited to fishing and citrus farming. The mountainous terrain prevents urban development but the substantial investment from the nuclear industry has supported infrastructure and tourism. Ikata Nuclear Power Plant is Shikoku’s only nuclear installation and provides much of the islands’ electricity. No. 1 reactor, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, began commercial operation in September 1977. No. 2 reactor was commissioned in 1982. No. 3 reactor, which is partially loaded with MOX, began operations in March 2010 and was built jointly by Mitsubishi and Westinghouse.

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  • Susan Carpenter, 2015. "The Price of Pork-Barrel Patronage: Beggars Can’t be Choosers," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Japan Inc. on the Brink, chapter 13, pages 232-240, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-46944-1_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137469441_14
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