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Have you ever been in an argument about nuclear power?
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Have you ever been in an argument about nuclear power?
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We have, and we found it frustrating and confusing, so let’s try and get to grips with this topic.
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[Intro] It all started in the 1940s.
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After the shock and horror of the war and the use of the atomic bomb, nuclear energy promised to be a peaceful spin-off of the new technology, helping the world get back on its feet.
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Everyone’s imagination was running wild.
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Would electricity become free?
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Could nuclear power help settle the Antarctic?
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Would there be nuclear-powered cars, planes, or houses?
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It seemed that this was just a few years of hard work away.
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One thing was certain: the future was atomic.
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Just a few years later, there was a sort of atomic age hangover; as it turned out, nuclear power was very complicated and very expensive.
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Turning physics into engineering was easy on paper, but hard in real life.
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Also, private companies thought that nuclear power was much too risky as an investment; most of them would much rather stick with gas, coal, and oil.
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But there were many people who didn’t just want to abandon the promise of the atomic age; an exciting new technology, the prospect of enormously cheap electricity, the prospect of being independent of oil and gas imports, and, in some cases, a secret desire to possess atomic weapons provided a strong motivation to keep going.
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Nuclear power’s finest hour finally came in the early 1970s, when war in the Middle East caused oil prices to skyrocket worldwide.
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Now, commercial interest and investment picked up at a dazzling pace.
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More than half of all the nuclear reactors in the world were built between 1970 and 1985.
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But which type of reactor to build, given how many different types there were to choose from?
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A surprising underdog candidate won the day: the light water reactor.
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It wasn’t very innovative, and it wasn’t too popular with scientists, but it had some decisive advantages: it was there, it worked, and it wasn’t terribly expensive.
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So, what does a light water reactor do?
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Well, the basic principle is shockingly simple: it heats up water using an artificial chain reaction.
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Nuclear fission releases several million times more energy than any chemical reaction could.
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Really heavy elements on the brink of stability, like uranium-235, get bombarded with neutrons.
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The neutron is absorbed, but the result is unstable.
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Most of the time, it immediately splits into fast-moving lighter elements, some additional free neutrons, and energy in the form of radiation.
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The radiation heats the surrounding water, while the neutrons repeat the process with other atoms, releasing more neutrons and radiation in a closely controlled chain reaction.
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Very different from the fast, destructive runaway reaction in an atomic bomb.
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In our light water reactor, a moderator is needed to control the neutrons’ energy.
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Simple, ordinary water does the job, which is very practical, since water’s used to drive the turbines anyway.
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The light water reactor became prevalent because it’s simple and cheap.
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However, it’s neither the safest, most efficient, nor technically elegant nuclear reactor.
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The renewed nuclear hype lasted barely a decade, though; in 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania barely escaped a catastrophe when its core melted.
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In 1986, the Chernobyl catastrophe directly threatened Central Europe with a radioactive cloud, and in 2011 the drawn-out Fukushima disaster sparked new discussions and concerns.
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While in the 1980s 218 new nuclear power reactors went live, their number and nuclear’s global share of electricity production has stagnated since the end of the ’80s.
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So what’s the situation today?
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Today, nuclear energy meets around 10% of the world’s energy demand.
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There are about 439 nuclear reactors in 31 countries.
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About 70 new reactors are under construction in 2015, most of them in countries which are growing quickly.
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All in all, 116 new reactors are planned worldwide.
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Most nuclear reactors were built more than 25 years ago with pretty old technology.
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More than 80% are various types of light water reactor.
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Today, many countries are faced with a choice: the expensive replacement of the aging reactors, possibly with more efficient, but less tested models, or a move away from nuclear power towards newer or older technology with different cost and environmental impacts.
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So, should we use nuclear energy?
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The pro and contra arguments will be presented here next week.
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重要な語彙とフレーズ
- 核エネルギー - Nuclear energy
- 軽水炉 - Light water reactor
- 核分裂 - Nuclear fission
- チェルノブイリ - Chernobyl
- 事故 - Accident
- エネルギー需要 - Energy demand
- 安全性 - Safety
練習のコツ
この動画のスピードやトーンに合わせて、shadow speechを行うことが有効です。ナレーションの速度は比較的落ち着いており、発音もクリアですので、まずは一文ずつ音読してみてください。始めは遅い速度で再生し、自分の発音を聞きながら、英語スピーキング練習を行いましょう。その後、少しずつスピードを上げて、フルスピードでリピートすることで、流暢さを向上させることができます。
また、重要なフレーズや単語を声に出して繰り返すことで、記憶に定着させやすくなります。特に、IELTSスピーキング対策として、特定のテーマに関連した語彙を重点的に使用することがポイントです。動画を視聴しながらメモを取り、新しい語彙を使った例文を作ってみることで、より実践的に学習することができます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。