“Protecting the environment with a nuclear power plant? In 3 years, 2.5 million trees were cut down and panels that could not be recycled were thrown away ”.

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“Nuclear war, away from public safety and environment policy”

The ‘Council of Professors seeking the rationalization of energy policy’, which criticizes post-nuclear energy policy, considers that “environmental protection is the cause of post-nuclear energy policy, but there are not 2.5 million trees in the whole country “. “After 20 years when the solar panel reaches the end of its life, the waste that cannot be recycled will accumulate as a heap,” he noted that energy policy is broken by contradictory logic.

On the 18th, the E-Kyotokyo cooperative said in an online discussion on ‘Korea’s energy policy broken by political logic’, “De-nuclear power has its roots in anti-science technology and anti-business sentiment. that extends in the current regime, not because of public safety or environmental policy. “We must not ignore that the limitations of new and renewable energies are also clear, which become good energies, recognizing the fictitious policy of nuclear power plants without alternatives”.

Deok-Hwan Lee, emeritus professor of chemistry at Sogang University, said in the day’s debate: “The current government declared an end to nuclear power and put public safety and environmental protection as the cause, but what we have experienced in the last three years is far from the government’s claim. ”

Professor Lee said: “For 20 years starting in the 1960s, we created national forests through a project that installed 420,000 people in the city, and the International Food Organization and UNEP recognized Korea as a successful example. of forest rehabilitation after the Second World War “. However, due to the energy conversion policy, the forest, which is 17 times the area of ​​Yeouido, has been excavated, 2.5 million trees have disappeared and the risk of landslides has increased ”.

In fact, the number of cases of sun damage is increasing, including soil seepage. According to data presented by the Korean Energy Agency Congressman Young-Seok Yoon’s office, 52 cases of sun damage were counted between July 20 and September 4. During the past month, torrential rains, soil spills, loss of solar power installations and flood damage occurred 1.1 times a day in various parts of the country.

Professor Lee continued, “20 years after the end of the solar panel’s useful life is more problematic,” he said. “Waste like non-perishable glass shards will accumulate like a pile, but there is no technology to recycle it.”

Kiwoon On, emeritus professor of economics at Soongsil University, said: “If renewable energy increases significantly due to denuclearization, there may be a problem such as a circular blackout caused by a decrease in production of 3.6GW in California in the United States. United in the middle of last month. ” “As a problem occurred, it was not possible to compensate for the sudden decrease in solar power generation due to sunset, and when renewable energy expands, such instability in power supply can occur.”

Some pointed out that post-nuclear policy lacked sustainability. Emeritus Professor On said: “Solar power generation was only 0.85% of power generation in the last month, so it did not play a role in the rainy season and typhoon period.” “The third energy baseline is that the share of renewable power generation by 2040 will rise to 30 ~ 35%.” I have doubts about the feasibility of the plan. ”

Professor Jeong Jae-jun from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pusan ​​National University also said, “It is difficult to increase the proportion of renewable energy generation by more than 15% in our country.” They analyzed that sustainability is not high.

Concerns have also been expressed that the establishment of the future national energy plan continues to be delayed, as energy policy focuses on nuclear power plants. Professor Jeong Jae-joon said: “Nuclear power is only one part of energy policy, but since it was buried before the nuclear power plant, the basic power supply and demand plan, which appears every two years, it was twisted, and even the basic energy plan went wrong. ” He said that he is going to innovate the consumption structure because it is not possible yet. “He said that” more than 50% of electricity is being used by industries, and changing the consumption structure means that we will eventually change the industrial structure, “he said.” Electricity is a service to support the industrial structure. It is happening, “he criticized.

Professor On said: “The ninth Basic Electricity Supply and Demand Plan, which should have been announced at the end of last year, has not yet come out, and next year we have to start working on the tenth plan.” “Because I couldn’t find a way to fill in the blanks according to the nuclear power plant,” he stressed.