Introduction to the Special Issue: Nuclear Power in East Asia

Nearly five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, with the largest planned share of new nuclear power reactors anticipated to be built in Asia, it is timely to survey the status and challenges of nuclear power in East Asia. The articles in this special issue of Asian Perspective grew out of the international, workshop, Nuclear Power in East Asia: The Costs and Benefits, convened by Peter Van Ness at the Australian National University in Canberra on August 12-14, 2014. The workshop aimed to identify what is really at stake in the vitally important decisions being made in many countries with respect to nuclear power. This special issue, like the workshop, provides perspectives from various disciplines, key to a comprehensive assessment and evidencebased policy. © 2015. Asian Perspective. All Rights Reserved.