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Originally Posted by Mister Mister
from what I understand, Japanese culture is not very supportive of the idea of nuclear technology, and I think i don't need to say why.
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That is completely false. Japan is powered by massive amount of nuclear powerplants, because they lack the natural resources to use anything else. Culturally the Japanese made the distinction between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Also note that Astroboy was nuclear-powered.
As a side note, due to widespread use of nuclear power, Japan has a relatively large quantity of plutonium as a by-product. It is a common joke that if they wanted to, the Japanese can become a nuclear power in one week.
(From an old report in 2005, they had 29
tonnes of fissionable plutonium; That's enough to make more than a thousand nuclear warheads. The Japanese are not afraid of technology.)