An indicator used by economists to measure the degree of economic development a country is its power consumption . Since the end of World War II, the world's electricity is produced mostly by burning gas or oil, using the capacity of rivers and seas to drive turbines, or fission (breaking) of uranium atoms.
Severe local alterations of the environment or global warming are some of the consequences of economic growth.
By its very nature, technology has a cost.
social and environmental risks of technological development are integrated as part of these costs in the equation of the "experts" in economic growth. This dogma of the economy it in four words: more power and poverty.
Thus, the "management" of the inseparable duo-risk technology is a crucial component of global economic dynamics. Even today it is no exaggeration to speak of an economy risk when you think about the political importance of the advanced countries to shift some of the most polluting industries to countries economic periphery.
Now in the risk-growth equation for the Japanese economy, nuclear energy is necessary . After the accident of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, one might ask: at what cost? Since the current economic model is a single answer: at any cost.
Economic growth is above all other considerations. The crash of Japanese plants is another of the many evidences of limits of the current global economic model .
indignation and stern gaze of European governments towards Japan is the hypocrisy fee required protocol for the occasion . His real concern is the nuclear ghosts resurface the collective unconscious built by European citizens over three decades of resistance to nuclear technology at a time of revival of its nuclear plans.
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What impact does this scenario on the reactivation of nuclear development in Argentina? If we assume that economic growth within the dominant global model is needed, a first point to consider is that nuclear development in Argentina is a story with a positive balance.
Twisting and grays, but with an impressive list of achievements. A country that assumes that one of its greatest trauma is the inability to complete the process of industrialization was able to consolidate fifty years of investments in the exporting nuclear reactors for research and medical applications.
Alawites and Bolivarian
Today the nuclear area in Argentina think of as a sectoral system of innovation with some features that should be able to move to scale the national economy.
A second point is that the Argentine nuclear plan does not have the magnitude of the nuclear plan French, German, American or Japanese. Today, Argentina has only two power plants, expected to launch a third and fourth folder is. It also projects in 2014-2015, have ready the first reactor of low power for small populations of purely domestic design and manufacturing. This raises a very different situation to that faced by developing countries and would be a mistake replicate in Argentina the critical evaluation criteria that apply to advanced economies.
PROJEKT VIII HUEMUL
Moreover, the Argentine nuclear development, following the trend of power-suffered from a historical tendency to secrecy that the consolidation of democracy nuance in "little information". So, now progresses on the nuclear issue announcing the "surface" of decisions: what to do. Still some fear of "open" the issue with all its problematic aspects. But the history of technology shows that once the investments are in place, the emergence of conflicts can be more expensive and even traumatic.
In this sense, the singular path of nuclear development in Argentina can be an opportunity to build on the collective construction of social representations about the uses of knowledge and technological development. A distinctive and important contribution to democratic consolidation. CHAVEZ
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is a political decision to transform the nuclear issue an opportunity for public discussion on guidelines technological risks and benefits, criteria for deciding relevant areas or investments, or collaboration with countries in the region.
"On February 16, 1951, in the atomic energy pilot plant on the island Huemul , of San Carlos de Bariloche, were performed in technical scale thermonuclear reactions. "
General Juan Domingo Peron
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