Nuclear energy lessons planned for Thailand's lower secondary students

BANGKOK, March 21 (TNA) - The Thai government plans to include nuclear energy lessons into lower secondary curricula to inculcate the country's younger generations about alternative nuclear energy and its proper utilization. Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi Wednesday opened a seminar in Bangkok, organized by Thailand’s Office of Atoms for Peace and Thammasat University, in which executives and academics of the Ministry of Education and several schools participated to jointly assess and work out the newly-planned curricula pertaining nuclear energy and relevant issues for Thailand's 7-9 graders. Currently, nuclear classes are only available for the country's 10-12 grades students. The nuclear energy courses for Thailand's lower secondary students are nearly finalized. Its content, covering basic knowledge of nuclear energy, sources, proper utilization, as well as its advantages and disadvantages will then be reviewed and probably revised before being included in the national curricula, together with examples of past nuclear accidents on the Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979, at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union in 1986 and at a nuclear power plant in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture in 2011. (TNA)