Issues Surrounding Nuclear Power

Coulter, John R.

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“…John R. (2005) believes that nuclear power, as clean energy, can effectively curb the greenhouse effect and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the perspective of energy conservation and emission reduction. And it thus affirms the positive significance of nuclear power project to environmental protection [4]. On the other hand, scholars such as Geoffrey R. Howe (2004) discuss the safety of nuclear power project from nuclear accident and nuclear radiation [5].…”

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Ethical Principles for Nuclear Power Engineering Decision-making (A Theoretical Review)

Wei¹,

Song²

2018

FMR

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This study examines the Ethical Principles for Nuclear Power Engineering Decision-making (A theoretical Review). The paper investigates the Ethical Principles considered in the decision making process of the nuclear power projects. The three relevant principles discussed are responsibility, justice and ecology. The researches about ethical decision-making of nuclear engineering focus on the aspects including nuclear safety, advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power, and the health and ecological influences of the nuclear engineering. The paper concludes that the implementation of nuclear power projects will have a great impact on social and economic benefits, technological development, human civilization, living standards and ecological environment. Three relevant ethical principles are proposed to help the decision makers of the nuclear projects to improve their decisions in future."The triumph of new technology in industry is an ecological failure. Each new technology promotes the contradiction between economic interests and ecological environment. The root of this contradiction lies 58

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Ethical Principles for Nuclear Power Engineering Decision-making (A Theoretical Review)

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Song²

2018

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Nuclear energy and our responsibility to future generations

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2024

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In this paper I will try to reconsider whether the argument of responsibility towards future generations represents plausibile critique of global use of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is considered one of the possible solutions for overcoming various environmental challenges, due to the fact that it represents an energy source that can provide society with all the necessary amounts of energy for a long time and that does not create unfavorable effects of solid fuel emissions, such as the destruction of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect. However, from the perspective of responsibility towards future generations, I will try to show how the nuclear industry, due to its irreversibility character, cannot represent the most suitable ecological solution in the present. I will try to further support the plausibility of the argument, addressing human rights as a modern ethical and political view, which bases moral responsibilities towards future generations on the liberal society values, according to which the freedom of individuals and their right to lead a dignified life are respected.

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Issues Surrounding Nuclear Power

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Ethical Principles for Nuclear Power Engineering Decision-making (A Theoretical Review)

Ethical Principles for Nuclear Power Engineering Decision-making (A Theoretical Review)

Nuclear energy and our responsibility to future generations

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