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The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Germany’s Energy Politics after Fukushima
https://doi.org/10.34577/00002419
https://doi.org/10.34577/000024192b8ab616-5250-4a8f-b479-aa49dd158ba7
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The Ethics of Nuclear Energy:Germany’s Energy Politics after Fukushima (556.3 kB)
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| Item type | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2014-06-20 | |||||
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| タイトル | The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Germany’s Energy Politics after Fukushima | |||||
| 言語 | en | |||||
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| タイトル | The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Germany’s Energy Politics after Fukushima | |||||
| 言語 | en | |||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||
| 資源タイプ | departmental bulletin paper | |||||
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| ID登録 | 10.34577/00002419 | |||||
| ID登録タイプ | JaLC | |||||
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| アクセス権 | open access | |||||
| アクセス権URI | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |||||
| 著者 |
Schreurs, Miranda A.
× Schreurs, Miranda A. |
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | The Fukushima nuclear accident had a large impact in Germany, a country that was already greatly sensitized to nuclear risks. Germany had one of the larger nuclear power sectors in the world in the 1970s and 1980s. It began to build nuclear power plants in the 1960s and 1970s as a follower of the concept of the Atoms for Peace Program. The government and industry invested heavily in nuclear energy in the hopes of obtaining a cheap and sustainable supply of energy. Germany’s anti-nuclear movement questioned the safety and costs of nuclear energy and pointed to the ethical concerns about leaving nuclear waste to future generations. In the 1970s the United States and its allies were in a Cold War with the Soviet Union. Germany was at the center of the Cold War as a country divided between east and west. Concerns grew about whether Germany might be used as a base for nuclear missiles and whether it would become ground zero in a conflict. Anti-nuclear protesters marched against the stationing of nuclear weapons and the construction of nuclear power plants in Germany. These movements became the basis for the emergence of Germany’s very successful Green Party, the first political party to openly take an anti-nuclear stance. After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, support for nuclear energy in Germany dropped sharply. The Social Democratic Party responded by calling for a phase out of nuclear energy. With both the Green Party and the Social Democratic Party opposed to nuclear energy, the days of nuclear energy became numbered. The conservative political parties, the Christian Democratic Union, the Christian Socialist Union, and the Free Democratic Party continued to support nuclear energy arguing that German safety standards were very high and the chances of a nuclear accident in Germany extremely small. They also tried to find new ways to support nuclear energy linking its use to efforts to control climate change. The election of a Social Democraticy Party-Green Party coalition in 1998 opened the door for the first nuclear phase out law in 2001. A decade later, however, a conservative government coalition tried to slow down the nuclear phase out linking the extension of the operating time of Germany’s nuclear power plants to a new climate and energy plan with ambitious renewable energy targets. This policy may have stayed in place had it not been for the Fukushima nuclear accident. The Fukushima nuclear accident brought back memories of Chernobyl and strengthened societal opposition to nuclear energy. The Germangovernment reached a second decision to phase out nuclear energy in 2011. The main differences with the earlier phase out law are that this one led to the immediate shut down of the 8 oldest nuclear power plants and scheduled the shut down of the remaining nine nuclear power plants by 2022. The government’s decision to phase out nuclear energy was supported by the work of an Ethics Commission for a Safe Energy Supply. An important argument made by the commission for the phase out of nuclear energy is that safer forms of low carbon energy are available. An energy transition to a renewable energy dominated system would lead to the development of a system that is less conflict ridden and can provide the world with a new energy model. |
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| 書誌情報 |
ja : 社会科学ジャーナル 号 77, p. 9-29, 発行日 2014-03-31 |
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| 出版者 | 国際基督教大学 | |||||
| 言語 | ja | |||||
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| 収録物識別子 | 04542134 | |||||
