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</span><br><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="line-height: 24px; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(80, 0, 0); ">In the Shadow of the Japan Crisis:</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(80, 0, 0); "><br>
The Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power</span></b></div><div></div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">
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</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: large; ">Matthew Wald, <i>New York Times</i> National Energy Reporter</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: large; "><br>Moderator: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><i><span style="font-size: large; ">Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Belfer</span></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><i><span style="font-size: large; ">Environment and Natural Resources Program </span></i></span></div>
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<font color="#000000">As nations consider nuclear power to meet the world's growing energy appetite, the media play a unique role in shaping public perception of safety and economics. </font></span></font><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large; "><font color="#000000">The unfolding Japan nuclear energy crisis presents a new challenge to the media, as they struggle to sort through confusing, and often conflicting, information about damage to the crippled plant and the threat to public safety. The disaster has reignited the American public debate about the future of nuclear power at a time when advocates had hoped for a renaissance of this technology. The Japan accident also provides a powerful reminder of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, the worst in American history. </font></span></font></p>
<p><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large; "><font color="#000000">How much does media coverage influence public acceptance of nuclear power? How well are the media covering the story? </font></span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font></p>
</div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><font color="#000000">Contact:</font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><font color="#000000"><br></font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><font color="#000000">Cristine Russell, </font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="mailto:cristine_russell@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font color="#000000">cristine_russell@hks.harvard.edu<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>CRISTINE RUSSELL<br>Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School<br>President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing<br>Contributing Editor, Columbia Journalism Review<br>
Correspondent, TheAtlantic.com<br>203.912.7650 (cell)<br>
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