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(1) capital
(2)revitalize
(3)proved
(4)reconstruct
(5)devastation
(6)spent
(7)budget
(8)trillion
(9)infrastructure
(10)color
(11)broadcast
(12)d
(13)e
(14)a
(15)c
(16)b
(17) bid
(18) debt
(19) investment
(20) competition

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Answer assigned questions (15min.)

Each group will be assigned to read a paragraph.

Please share the class what your group answer is.

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1. What do power company have to do to restart using its offline reactors?

Power companies must apply for NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority) safety inspections. (L4-5)

2. How are the new guidelines different from the previous ones?

This guideline is legally binding unlike the previous ones. (L6)

3. According to the new guideline, what are four things to deal with disasters?

1. Building new defenses to protect power plants from tsunami.

2. Installing filtered vents to help remove radioactive substances.

3. Setting up remote secondary control rooms to close the plants in case of emergency.

4. Examining the ground under their plants carefully to check earthquake faults.

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1. What was a problem the government ignored in the process of the promotion of nuclear energy?

Japan is often hit by earthquakes. (L3; earthquake-prone country)

2. What does Japan have to do now to deal with a potential lack of energy source?

Japan needs to find a way to maintain a stable energy supply. (L7)

3. What alternative energy sources are potentially fruitful?
https://us.sunpower.com/blog/2018/02/23/learn-about-seven-types-renewable-energy/

1. Solar energy (sun's energy/light→heat→illumination/hot water/electricity/cooling system)

2. Wind energy (wind→wind turbines→electricity)

3. Geothermal energy (heat of the earth (e.g. heated rock/hot water underground→geothermal power plants→electricity)

4. Waterwheels

5. Power from the ocean (thermal energy/mechanical energy from tides and waves)

6. Bioenergy (biomass→heat→electricity; biomass→produce liquid fuels (e.g. ethanol/biodiesel)

7. Hydrogen

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1. What are three advantages of using the nuclear power generation?

1. Clean (it does not release CO 2 or other gases that pollute the air.)

2. efficient and cost-effective (one gram of uranium 235 (8.5 yen)=three tons of coal (26,500yen))

3. Capability of stable energy supply (not affected by political conditions)

2. What country other than Australia and Canada has uranium resources? Rank the countries based on the amount of uranium resources they have.
https://www.australianuranium.com.au

1. Country: Kazakhstan

2. Ranking: Australia → Kazakhstan →Canada

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1. When and where did Chernobyl explosion happen? Is there agreement on how many people died from the accident?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20403-25-years-after-chernobyl-we-dont-know-how-many-died/

When: 26th April, 1986
Where: Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine
Victims: Unconfirmed

2. How much of land was contaminated by Chernobyl explosion? How large is it? Show a specific example. (Look up on the web)

100,000km 2
It is as large as the land of South Korea.
Total of the area of Hokkaido (83,424km ²) and Iwate prefecture (15,275km ²).

3. What are two problems of using nuclear power generation even without an accident?

1. Problem of safe management of nuclear waste.

2. Misuse of the nuclear technology. (e.g. creating weapons)

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1. What did Germany, Switzerland, on the one hand, and Italy, on the other hand, decide on the problem of nuclear plants?

Germany/Switzerland: to abandon nuclear plants in the next few decades.

Italy: not to restart using nuclear power plants.

2. What are China, India, and Canada going to do to meet their energy needs?

They are going to promote it for future economic growth. (L5-6)

3. Approximately how many countries are considering to recruit nuclear power programs? What countries are building the first nuclear reactor in their country?
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/others/emerging-nuclear-energy-countries.aspx

1. How many: about 30 countries

2. What countries: UAE and Belarus