1. NUCLEAR-FREE WORLD
- ENVISIONED DISASTER: NUCLEAR DISASTER
- AREA: DISASTER PREVENTION
- PREPARED BY: SZÁSZ ISTVÁN ATTILA, ROMANIA

2. FACING NUCLEAR DISASTER
I have chosen to focus on a possible
nuclear disaster because I think that this
threat is a real one and we could all face it
someday in the future so it is very important
to start working on it’s prevention.
A nuclear disaster would endanger the life
of thousands or possibly millions of people
who could be killed in an explosion or who
could face a severe radiation poisoning.

3. THERE ARE 2 KIND OF NUCLEAR
THREATS THAT COULD EASILY LEAD
TO A NUCLEAR DISASTER:
- military threat: referring to actions that
involve the use of nuclear weapons and
devices.
- civil threat: referring to events that
could threaten the safeness of the
nuclear power plants from around the
World.

4. THE MILITARY THREAT:
- At this time there are 9 states possessing
nuclear weapons: USA, Russia, United
Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan,
North Chorea and Israel. Also Iran is suspected
with the intention of enriching uranium, which
could be used to build nuclear weapons.
- In this case the real threat comes from the possibility of some well organized
terrorist organizations to procure nuclear materials and to use them in terrorist
attacks. This could never happen in some of the nuclear states, but it represents a
high risk in states like Pakistan, North Chorea or Iran, known as supporters of
some extremist organizations.
- At this moment we do not know about any terrorist organization that holds any
radioactive materials or devices, but we do know about the willingness of some
of them to procure this kind of materials.

5. THE CIVIL THREAT:
- 15% of the worldwide
needed electric energy is
produced by the 436
nuclear reactors, built in 31
state all around the world.
- As we unfortunately witnessed last year at Fukushima, in
some extreme cases, these facilities can represent a high
radiation poisoning risk which will lead to contamination
and health problems among the affected territory.

6. MY SOLUTION:
- My idea is based on the
prevention of any nuclear
disaster that might occur in
the future by creating a
nuclear-free world.
- The theory works by
applying some very simple
rules and measures that need
to be taken.

7. PREVENTING THE MILITARY THREAT:
- Nuclear disarmament presents itself as one of the
most important solutions when talking about
preventing nuclear disasters. All the nuclear states
have to constantly decrease the number of their
weapons until all of them will be eliminated. Many
steps in this direction have allready be taken since the
end of the Cold War, but there is still a long way to
go until we reach the final elimination of these
diabolic weapons.
- Strenghtening the nuclear non-proliferation regime is also very important. No
state should be let to create highly enreached uranium, which could be used for
building nuclear bombs.

8. - Upgrading the security level of all the radioactive material storage places is an
other important prevention tool. This way we will reduce the risk of anyone
unauthorized (involving terrorists) to access these materials, which later can be
used to build radioactive devices.
All these ideas are also present in the Non
Proliferation Treaty signed by 189 states of
the World and refused to be signed by Israel,
North Chorea, India and Pakistan. Iran holds
a special status by signing the treaty but not
applying it.
By not applying these basic prevention
ideas, every state increases the risk of
terrorist organizations to procure nuclear
weapons and use them in attacks that would
definitely lead to a major disaster.

9. PREVENTING THE CIVIL THREAT
- The real solution on
preventing a civil nuclear
disaster would be a
transition from nuclear
energy to alternative energy
resources, which is much
more safer, ecological and
also involves lower costs.
- After the events of the 2011 nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiihi, the civil society
has started a worldwide campaign based on the presented idea, and has reached to
make some changes in the nuclear energy management politics of many international
organizations. The IAEA has decided to inspect and strengten (if needed) the
security level of all the existing nuclear power plants and a very important step was
taken by Germany who decided to close al it’s nuclear power plants by the year
2022.
- Until all the nuclear energy plants will be closed it is very important to keep them
at a maximum security level and also to be careful with the handling and storing of
the nuclear wastes.

10. THE IMPACT OF MY PREVENTION
SOLUTIONS
By implementing the solutions I have
presented we could eliminate the possibility of a
nuclear disaster in the future.
Without nuclear weapons and devices there
would be no reason to be afraid of a nuclear war
or a nuclear terrorist attack. And by converting
to alternative energy resources we could
eliminate the possibility of facing a similar event
to the one in Fukushima or Cernobil.
All the presented solutions are real-life viable,
but their implementation needs a long time, a lot
of work and good policies from the international
institutions.