The Big Day ( Debate & Seminar)

           This week is the “big day” for the students of AT 12 who are taking course KPD 3016. We were being separate into 5 small groups to do our researched regarding nuclear power. Each group will later come out their opinion towards the idea of using nuclear power to become an alternative way to replace petroleum and charcoal in generating energy. This is because petroleum, charcoal and natural gas are non-renewable energy resources. After the hard work of searching information, interviewing nuclear expert, sharing ideas through the internet as well as do survey from the public, my group decided to accept the idea of using nuclear power to generate energy.

            Later our group started to discuss with other group members to seek the groups who having the same opinion with us then we combined together to form a bigger group. This time we were separate into two parties: the government (agree) and the public (disagree) and together we shared our ideas, discussing and sharing information with each others before our debate. We then picked two of the members to represent “the government” for debating on 3 of October. The same happened for the disagree party. I really enjoyed the time together with my friends.

During the debate, the relationships between both parties were very strengthening at that time. Many ideas were expressed out which really amaze me. However, the debate did not really affect our relationship in fact become closer. The debate is just to express our point of view which makes us think differently and neither winner nor loser for this debate. I think nuclear energy having very high efficiency but at the same time also causing many problems therefore researched still needed.

The next day is our seminar where all of the groups send their representative to present their result of survey. We also invite Mr. Fairuz, representative of Malaysia Nuclear Agency. This seminar is open for all the students of UPSI, unfortunately the respond is not as good as expected, only a few students turned up for the seminar. But many lecturers do came for the seminar especially from our faculty (Faculty of Science and Mathematics). Maybe this is because the exposure of public towards nuclear issues still very low and their mind is being narrow as the public were being brainwash by the disaster in Japan which their nuclear power plant were exposure due to earthquake. Anyway, I do hope there will have an alternative way in solving the problem or come out with another better alternative in replacing petroleum in generating energy.