Business, Thought, and Management Articles --- Nuclear Power --- The Future of Nuclear Power
How the future of nuclear power will be that have variety of issues? How the nuclear power should be? Let's think about he future of nuclear power here.
How the future of nuclear power will be that have variety of issues? How the nuclear power should be? Let's think about he future of nuclear power here.
By the accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station due to the earthquake and Tsunami disaster, the "safety myth" of nuclear power plant collapsed. Now people's anxiety against the nuclear power is said to be growing. As nuclear power is closed up by the accident, issues that nuclear power was having from before have surfaced as major problems such as radioactive waste, decommissioning, site workers issues, etc.
However, power company seems to believe they should continue to run the nuclear power plants and increase the utilization rate. Nuclear power plant takes a big cost for the maintenance even it stops generating. In order to reduce the cost burden, it is much better to increase utilization rate and postpone the decommissioning.
However, it is risky to continue operation of nuclear power while remaining current issues, and it is not very good for future. It is demanded to clear all issues, not only safety issues but problems of radioactive waste and site workers environment.
Nuclear power has been expected to play an important role as energy source for power generation in the future.
But it shall be much more secured, much less produce radioactive waste, and much less give excessive burden to the site workers than conventional, and must be one that does not leave a biasing in the future rather than just re-running the existing nuclear power plants.
Fission Energy
Nuclear power is basically the power generated by the nuclear reaction. Nuclear reaction has mainly nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Nuclear power generation that is operating currently in commercial takes advantage of the fission energy of uranium-plutonium.
Atmic Reactor
Atomic reactor is the equipment to make continuously stable nuclear reaction. Fission will generate a large amount of radioactive substance with explosive energy. Nuclear power generation is to generate electricity using the heat energy by controlling the nuclear reaction in the reactor.
Power Generating Plant
Power generation plant will generate the power by the generator. In order to move the generator, you need the power. In the case of nuclear power plant, it creates the steam that was heated by the nuclear reaction energy, thereby turns the turbine.
Radioactive Waste
When operating nuclear power plant, radioactive waste will be made. Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive substances. Processing of radioactive waste has concerns of its risk and the impact to the environment, it has become a major issue of nuclear power.
Workers and Their Health
Those who supports the operation of nuclear power plant are the workers who work there. Workers sometimes have to work side-by-side with danger at high radiation area. And their health management is a big issue.
Safety Design and Quality Management
Fission energy is explosively large, nuclear reaction is dangerous accompanied by radioactivity. So, variety of safety design shall be applied to nuclear power so that any accidents or failures shall never occur.
Correspondence in Case of Accident
If the accident occurs in a nuclear power plant, it will have a significant impact on a wide range of people. Depending on the correspondence in case of accident, it can harm many people's lives and health, cause pollution in wide area and ocean, and will be criticized from the international community.
Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plant
The nuclear power plant will be gradually aging by continuous long-term operation. Outdated nuclear power plants will have to stop the operation, and must be decommissioned. The nuclear power will also have a big issue for this "decommissioning".
The Future of Nuclear Power
How the future of nuclear power will be that have variety of issues? How the nuclear power should be? Let's think about he future of nuclear power here.
Should the Nuclear Power Be Eliminated?
There are opinions that we should be without nuclear power. That says, we should abolish the nuclear power plants because nuclear power is dangerous, has concerns like accidents and radioactive waste, and it is not promising as an energy source.
Future of Energy Policy
How our energy policy will be in future? What should we consider the use of energy from now? Let's think about the future of energy policy here.
