지구적 기후변화와 탈핵의 정치

Abstract

Among dangerous ecological phenomena noticed all over the world, definitely, the most horrible thing in the industrialized society of the 20 century is nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is the most powerful and terrible lion than ever before that emerged from Pandora's box under the name of the modern scientific technology. The movie, 'The Day After', released on November 20 in 1983 via the ABC has warned the danger of a nuclear bomb, vividly describing the hazardous situation produced by a nuclear weapon. The use of nuclear power itself includes an extreme danger. The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union, and that of Fukushima in Japan in 2011 were classified as over level 5 events. The Three Mile accident was caused by a mistake of a worker, and the Chernobyl by the experiment of the scientists. On the other hand, the natural disaster like climate change was the cause of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. As people around the world in real time watched the 9/11 in 2001 and the Fukushima in 2011 in their own room, today's danger spreads out simultaneously all over the world and then rapidly triggers a chain reaction between the whole countries and people on earth. However, the peril of modern time is in hiding everywhere. After the Fukushima disaster, according to a Public Opinion survey on nuclear power in December, 2013, 6 out of 10 respondents said, "A nuclear power plant is no longer safe." The response that a nuclear power plant is safe was reported to be 31.2%, falling down 5.8% compared to a previous research. For now, the problem of bailing out human from a nuke should be discussed not as a vague ideal but as a specific reality. The key issue is how to handle the weight of nuclear power which currently accounts for 6% of a total energy consumption and 30% of a total energy production. The following are several reasons why the myth of nuclear power has continued till now. Firthly, it is safe. Secondly, it is cheap. Thirdly, renewable energy is expensive. At last, renewable energy can not produce sufficient electricity. Accordingly, I would like to ponder upon how to make our whole world free of the risk of nuclear power, how to take responsibility for, and who are responsible for the nuclear disaster.