Minor Assignment 4

Title : The problems of nuclear power plant; its potential risks and the contemporary and future concern

Thesis :Although, in recent decades, it is inevitable for people to use electricity produced by nuclear power plant, it is no longer able to heavily depend on the plant because of following reasons; the underlying risks, the extremely negative influence on human and other beings, and its legitimacy.


Outline
I. Introduction
　A. Background Information
　B. Thesis

II. The potential risks and problems of running Nuclear Power Plant and Reprocessing Plant
　A. About Nulcear Power Plant (NPP)
　　1. The number of NPP in the world and japan
　　2. The history of NPP accidents both in japan and the world
　　3. The effect on the all the creatures surrounding NPP.
　B. About Reprocessing Plant
　　1. General information about this plant
　　2. The invisible risks and influence on human beings
　　3. About Rokkasho RP(reprocessing plant)

III. Legitimacy of RP
　A. Law of Japan
　B. The point of conflict
　　1. The material reproduced in Plant
　　2. The material for nuclear bomb

IV. The terror of low doses of ionizing radiation on human health
　A. definition of radiation/radioactive
　　1. The cause
　　2. Effects
　B. Relationship of Reprocessing Plant and low doses of ionizing radiation
　C. Cancer as a result of doses of radiation

V. Reaction to this problem
　A. Activity to Stop Rokkasho
　　1.Led by many artist like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shing02, etc.
　　2. Describe the actual condition now
　B. Alternative energy
　　1. Wind power and solar energy practical?
　　2. Need for Innovation

VI.Conclusion

Minor Assignment 3: Research Proposal

In recent decades, the using of nuclear power plant has been controversial issue; whether it is safe or not for human beings in the sense of both human health and politics or world peace.

In Japan, there are some people casting a doubt on the using of nuclear power plant, especially the way of disposing and reprocessing the nuclear fuel, particularly plutonium.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the risk of the recycling the source of nuclear power plant (especially, Plutonium and Uranium) in Japan by taking an example of Rokkasho (in Aomori Prefecture, Japan) reprocessing plant, and to give an opportunity to rethink about the future of the energy system.

The nuclear power plant and its reprocessing plant do have environmental and political problems because of some reasons from research below.

Mary Byrd Davis essay is talking about the nuclear plant accidents which terrified the people living around the plant in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan in 1999(2000). E Cardis and other scientists explore the relationship of cancer such as leukaemia, and low doses of ionizing radiation which is coming from the nuclear wasted (2005). Dr. Frank Barnaby and Shaun Burnie’s paper titled “Thinking the Unthinkable: Japanese nuclear power and proliferation in East Asia” looks at the negative political aspects of Rokkasho reprocessing plant which means that the reprocessed material is the same material for making nuclear bomb(2005). These sources seem to be adequate and liable enough to support my thesis of my paper at this stage in my research.

Minor Assignment 2:Bibliography

Richard Wakeford, "The cancer epidemiology of radiation," Nature Publishing Group, Oncogene (2004) 23.

E Cardis, "Risk of cancer after low doses of ionising radiation: retrospective cohort study in 15 countries," June 2005
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7508/77

Shinichi Ogawa, Michael Schiffer, "Japan's Plutonium Reprocessing Dilemma," Arms Control Today. Washington: Oct 2005

Dr. Frank Barnaby and Shaun Burnie, August 2005 "Thinking the Unthinkable: Japanese nuclear power and proliferation in East Asia"
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/japanreport.php


Mary Byrd Davis, "A "blue flash" hits Tokai-mura"
Earth Island Journal; Spring 2000; 15, 1; Academic Research Library
pg. 26

Minor Assignment 1: Scratch Outline

What is the essential problem of using nuclear power ?

What is Nuclear Power?
What is Plutonium, Uranium?
What is nuclear waste and radio-activity?
What is nuclear reprocessing plant?
　　Case of Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant placed in Aomori Prefecture, Japan
What is radio-active contamination?
　　Brief history of contamination
　　　　Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, the victim of nuclear experiment.

What is the problem of the nuclear reprocessing plant?
Is it dangerous?
　　Effects on human healt?
　　Is the contamination fatal?
When did the contamination start?
What about the other countries which adopt nuclear power plant?
　　Are there also problems or not?

Is there any solution?
Is there alternative energy?
Is there any example of using alternative energy?
　　Germany – Wind plants
What needs to be done?