Rogat+-+Fukushima+Articles

Michelle Rogat Reading Notes - Beat Reporting - Fukushima Articles


 * 1) "Fukushima Hot Zone Cleanup..."
 * 2) Types of Data and how they were collected - mostly interviews, some info from public record issued by government
 * 3) narrative of first hand experience - gotten by going and visiting the sites and recording observations and experiences
 * 4) statements from Japanese government from public info - news, the government workers he was visiting the area with
 * 5) struggles for the clean up - nuclear engineer from Japan Atomic Energy Agency
 * 6) struggles in clean up plan from interview with government official overseeing decontamination
 * 7) advise from outside of government, give more of citizen's perspective - environmentalist - Yokota
 * 8) local business and farmer worries and perspectives from local land and cattle business owners
 * 9) Future Proposal/Research - How is the "no-go zone" plan coming along? What is the society's trust in it and in their government? How does that affect the success of getting the area back to the daily routine of life? Will the plan for the no-go zone actually work? What will be the hurdles it will come across?
 * 10) "A Year After..."
 * 11) Types of Data - mostly interviews with experts in different but related fields and public data on government incentives, the state of current society, and status of their nuclear plants
 * 12) interview with Tokyo's Institute on Energy Policies
 * 13) public info on current situations of plants - news, ...
 * 14) university energy policy expert
 * 15) incentives published by Japanese Government
 * 16) Tokyo economist
 * 17) a poll conducted this month - by whom?
 * 18) Future Research - look into the ability of Japan to shift towards renewable energy - do they have pathway dependency issues, do they have a geographical advantage somehow, etc
 * 19) "As Arctic Warms..."
 * 20) interview of NJ state climatologist
 * 21) data on climate scientists
 * 22) explanation of climate predictions climatologist from Rutger's University