Publicatie Laka-bibliotheek:
Power in Czechoslovakia
Auteur | Frank Leek, Laka |
Datum | augustus 1992 |
Classificatie | 2.33.0.00/09 (TSJECHOSLOWAKIJE - ALGEMEEN (tot en met 1992)) |
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Uit de publicatie:
INTRODUCTION LAKA is an environmental organization derived from the antinuclear energy movement, and seated in Amsterdam. One of the main objectives of LAKA is to collect information about nuclear energy and to make this, in a systematic way, accessible to the general public. For the past few years LAKA has been cooperating with the Czechoslovakian environmental organization Children of the Earth. The cooperation concerns among others the exchange of information and experience. Because of these relations, at LAKA the idea rose to allow research to be done about a subject that is important to the environmental movement in Czechoslovakia: nuclear energy. In Czechoslovakia the question whether nuclear energy should play a greater role in the near future is now very current. It appears that there is no unanimous agreement to this question by political organizations and the environmental movement. Some people see nuclear energy as the only possibility to close down outdated coal power plants and thus reduce an important environmental problem: the emission of sulphur-dioxide. Other people are convinced that this environmental problem can also be brought to acceptable proportions by using more gas and modern coal power plants. Furthermore they think that also other alternatives for nuclear energy have to be considered: saving, co-generation of heat and power with gas and hydro power. The Federal Ministry of the Economy, that prepares the energy policy, is an advocate of nuclear power. For the energy policy up until 2005, the Ministry sees nuclear energy as the energy source for new power generating capacity. Environmental costs of coal power plants are not the only consideration for the Ministry, who also motivates the choice on the basis of costs, and strategic interests. This wider motivation for nuclear energy created the necessity of a wider comparison (on more issues than environmental effects only) of nuclear energy and alternatives. After visiting Prague one month this paper is my contribution to such a wider comparison. During my stay in Czechoslovakia I got to know different views on the energy policy, through talks with activists, researchers and policy makers. Moreover these views were shaped by reports and papers about the Czechoslovakian energy policy that :I studied. Following the visit to Czechoslovakia my paper was drawn up with the cooperation of the instructor (LAKA), my university (Prof. dr. M.J. Ellman) and the mediating institute (Wetenschapswinkel ). De Wetenschapswinkel, literally "the science-shop", is an initiative of the Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam). De Wetenschapswinkel brings non-profit organizations with a research question into contact with students. In this way these organizations are able to let research be carried out at low costs, while at the same time students get the chance to acquire research experience.
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