How did Japan come to terms with nuclear power after Hiroshima?

The government says radiation levels at the Fukushima nuclear plant are high enough to affect human health

Japan's first experience of nuclear technology was when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 at the end of World War II.

So how did the country come to terms with nuclear power in the way that it seems to have done?

Christopher Gerteis is a lecturer in the history of contemporary Japan at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

First broadcast 15 March 2011