A Nuclear Complex? A Network Visualization of Japan’s Nuclear Industry and Regulatory Elite, 2006 to 2012:

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

Michael C.Dreiling¹ 

关键词: Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster;    Japan;    energy industry networks;    nuclear village;    network visualization;    power elite;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2378023118769546

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

After the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi facility on March 11, 2011, in Japan, attempts by civil society actors to reroute the energy priorities of the country inevitably confronted obstacles in what scholars, activists, and journalists alike termed a nuclear complex. The authors’ original network data identify a dense field of overlapping executives and officials in Japan who forge long-term ties among the nuclear energy industry, the state, the leading business federation in Japan, nuclear scientists, and the national media. The authors use the Fruchterman-Reingold algorithm to present a large-n network visualization of these organizations and their ties in a manner that spatially distributes similar pairs of organizations proximate to one another.

【 授权许可】

CC BY