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Nuclear Power Deployment Operation and Sustainability Part 5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'nuclear power deployment operation and sustainability part 5', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 130 Nuclear Power - Deployment Operation and Sustainability nuclear energy in relation to other energy sources. In so doing we should first be aware of the distinctive aspects of nuclear technology such as the effects that long-lived waste could have upon future generations. We should furthermore include different technological methods or fuel cycles in the production process as these methods deal differently with the distinctive aspects. This paper presents this comparison by focusing on the notion of sustainability and its philosophical origins in justice between generations alternatively known as intergenerational justice. Some people might object that sustainable nuclear power is a contradictio interminis. Their objections probably arise from the fact that nuclear power leaves behind highly dangerous toxic waste with tremendous long life-times. This correctly relates to one interpretation of sustainability but in a comprehensive analysis we need to include all the relevant interpretations. Sustainability could for instance also be seen as the endurance of energy resources for future generations. New technology in nuclear power production i.e. nuclear breeders and multiple recycling of the waste could facilitate the latter for a very long time. So nuclear might be unsustainable in one interpretation and sustainable in another precisely which one should be given priority might emerge after thorough moral analysis. Rather than using sustainability as an adjective this paper sets out to clarify the notion by focusing on how nuclear power production affects the distribution of burdens and benefits over the different generations. Such an analysis can help decision-makers in the making of technically and ethically informed choices when opting for a certain nuclear fuel cycle. It could also help when comparing nuclear power or more to the point a certain nuclear fuel cycle with other energy systems on the basis of the notion of how they affect the interests of people .