Monday, 17 December 2007

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.

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