“When the Emperor Was Divine” is an excellent book that
describes a Japanese family that was taken from home and put into a
concentration camp after the beginning of the World War II. It shows how this
situation changed the world for this family and describes how they were
changing over the time. Once they were in the camp, they were forced to be
there without going out of there. They passed two terrible years at the camp
and the author describes how it affected the boy and the girl. The girl changed
completely her identity, she was older enough to be aware of their reality,
otherwise the boy is completely confused and disoriented since his world
changed completely. The author uses different perspectives to tell us in a
general way how this family felt and how terrible was for American Japanese to
stay in the concentration camps. By using a simple family’s history she could
describe the reality of thousands of American Japanese that were in the
internment. In my opinion this book was great and the author could describe a
perfect history of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen
before. With a very clear, intense, and precise novel she could use a single
family’s history to evoke the abuse
(both physical and mental) of a generation of American Japanese in the
internment during the World War Two. With only five chapters (when the mother
received the order to evacuate; the daughter during the log trip to the camp;
the son in the desert camp; the family’s return to the house; and the release
of the father after four years) and using a different point of view in each one
of them she could summary years of paint and suffering and also the history of
thousands of American Japanese during that time.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
Chinese State Nuclear Companies Merge into $96 Billion Firm.
Authors:
Dodillet, Lauren
Source:
China Business Review; Feb2015,
p1-1, 1p
Document
Type: Article
Subjects:
China General Nuclear Power Group
(Company); China Power Investment Corp.; State Nuclear Power
Technology Corp.; Chemical reactors -- Design& construction;
Investments – China
Abstract:
The article informs about the
consolidation of electricity producer China Power Investment Corp. (CPI) and
State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. (SNPTC). Topics discussed includes
approval of the consolidation by the China's State-owned Assets Supervision and
Administration Commission, restructuring of the company by investing 96 billion
dollars in assets and development of a new reactor model by the China General
Nuclear Power Group (CGN).:
Accession N
Chinese State Nuclear Companies
Merge into $96 Billion Firm
A merger between state-owned nuclear
enterprises China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) and State Nuclear Power
Technology Company (SNPTC) was approved earlier this month by China's
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. The resulting
firm will have more than $96 billion in assets, Reuters reports. Restructuring
work is underway to merge the two companies, but there is no timeline as to
when the work will be finished.
As separate companies, CPI lacked
nuclear expertise and SNPTC lacked financing and a license to operate its own
reactors--problems that are solved through the merger. Together they are in
direct competition with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and China
General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), a state-owned coalition that has designed a
new reactor model that it hopes will revolutionize the Chinese market.
SNPTC was created in 2007 in order
to streamline transfer of nuclear reactor technology from Japanese-owned,
America-based energy company Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In doing so,
China made Westinghouse's AP1000 reactor its reactor of choice while SNPTC
developed a domestic model--the CAP1400--based on the technology. Previously
unable to operate either model, the combined CPI and SNPTC will be able to
promote, build, and operate reactors as the CNNC-CGN coalition does its Hualong
1.
CGN is currently the largest
producer of nuclear power in China, with a market share of 44 percent. CNNC
follows it with 18 percent, and CPI has 10 percent. The rest is held by foreign
companies. The global nuclear power market is dominated by French, Russian, and
Japanese companies, but China is seeking to compete with these major players on
the world stage. In fact, the merger is key in boosting CPI and SNPTC to the
scale required to do so. A similar move is being contemplated for a CNNC and
CGN merger in the future, with plans submitted last year.
In the meantime, China is the
world's largest nuclear power market, with 23 operational reactors and 26 more
under construction. It has recovered from the slow growth brought on by the 2011
Fukushima Daiichi disaster and is back in full production of nuclear reactors,
which had been halted temporarily. It is aiming to have an installed capacity
of 58 gigawatts by 2020, an increase of 18 gigawatts over the 40 it is expected
to reach by the end of this year.
(Photo by Malte Schmidt via Flickr)
~~~~~~~~
By Lauren Dodillet
Source: China Business Review, Feb2015, p1, 1p
I found this in Multi Dbase Search,
from our MDC library and I think it is interesting.
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Learning From Fukushima
Here we can learn a little more about the consequences of a
Nuclear disaster, for example we used here the disaster occurred in Fukushima,
Japan in March ,2011.
Authors:
Pfotenhauer, Sebastian M.
Jones, Christopher F.
Saha, Krishanu
Jasanoff, Sheila
Source:
Issues in Science & Technology.
Spring2012, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p79-84. 6p.
Document Type:
Article
Subject Terms:
*FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Accident, Fukushima,
Japan, 2011
*NUCLEAR reactor accidents
*TECHNOLOGY & state
*TECHNOLOGY -- Political aspects
*GOVERNMENT regulation
Geographic Terms:
FUKUSHIMA-ken (Japan)
JAPAN
Abstract:
The article offers the author's
insights on the lessons learned after the nuclear failure at the Fukushima
Daiichi reactors in Japan in March 2011. The author states that the nuclear
disaster was due to the technology failure and poor regulations or corporate
greed. Moreover, the three lessons from the Fukushima disaster are the removal
of politics from technological design, national and global ramifications of
nuclear power, and available method is prevented by sociotechnical systems.
Important visit of Masako Patrum to our campus.
here is a picture of the class with professor Masako Patrum , who is from Okinawa, Japan and came to our Campus to talk with us about her family and her life as an American Japanese woman, she told us about her culture and her traditions in japan and helped us to understand better the book we have red
"When the Emperor was Divine"
Thursday, March 5, 2015
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