Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University

I distinctly remember the many pairs of twitching eyebrows, tapping fingers, and the exaggerated sighs of my classmates, while we had a discussion about the use of nuclear energy in Japan. Although not intended to be a debate, whenever someone spoke, they were immediately interrupted by someone who disagreed with them. We failed to separate our feelings from facts, and by the end of our class, I was frustrated by our inability to communicate. When I was 8 years old, the Great East Japan Earthquake caused one of the most devastating nuclear power plant accidents in history in the region of…