Estimating the Effects of Nuclear Power Facilities on Local Income Levels: A Quasi-Experimental Approach

Ando, Michihito

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“…While local communities may envision job creation and higher per capita income as the positive side effects of nuclear power plant hosting, careful econometric analyses of these benefits have shown them to be more varied than typically imagined. Ando (2012) divides locations into three categories: those with nuclear power plant facilities, those with part of a site, and neighboring cities/towns. His analysis finds strong differences in the economic benefits among these communities.…”

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“…12). Further, unlike many direct host communities, the city received little tax revenue and actually found its per capita income decreasing following the siting of a nuclear power plant nearby (Ando, 2012: 31). This outcome strongly contrasted with the economic outcomes of cities such as Rokkasho, which experienced high income growth due to the plant (ibid.…”

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“…However, while these benefits annually provide tens of millions of dollars in new facilities, retraining opportunities for workers, roads, bridges, cultural halls, and support for attracting new businesses to often rural and depopulating areas, new research shows that the individual economic benefits from nuclear power are at best mixed. Econometric analyses have underscored the reality that the financial benefits in terms of per capita income from hosting nuclear facilities have been uneven, with some communities experiencing financial decline, not growth, after the construction (Ando, 2012). Futaba in Fukushima – despite large subsidies for its reactors – found its public finances deteriorating due to the heavy reliance on initial money generated by hosting Fukushima Dai-ichi (Onitsuka, 2011).…”

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A Normal Accident or a Sea-Change? Nuclear Host Communities Respond to the 3/11 Disaster

Aldrich

2013

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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While 3/11 has altered energy policies around the world, insufficient attention has focused on reactions from local nuclear power plant host communities and their neighbors throughout Japan. Using site visits to such towns, interviews with relevant actors, and secondary and tertiary literature, this article investigates the community crisis management strategies of two types of cities, towns, and villages: those which have nuclear plants directly in their backyards and neighboring cities further away (within a 30 mile radius). Responses to the disaster have varied with distance to nuclear facilities but in a way contrary to the standard theories based on the concept of the ‘distance decay function’. Officials in communities directly proximal to nuclear power plants by and large remain supportive of Japan's nuclear power program, while those in cities and towns at a distance (along with much of the general public) have displayed strong opposition to the pre 3/11 status quo. Using qualitative data, this article underscores how national energy and crisis response policies rest strongly on the political economy, experiences of, and decisions made at the subnational level.

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