Dignity: a proposal between human rights and nuclear energy

Abstract

This article has its research at the intersection of nuclear energy and human rights. Nuclear power is seen as a risky or dangerous process, but not a criminal one. Nuclear energy and dignity appear to be antagonistic or incompatible concepts. For this reason, this research was dedicated to this subject, seeking to verify the extent of the use of nuclear energy and its presence in civil society, as an important tool for diagnostic and therapeutic medicine. This research is based on the hypothesis that dignity is the concept capable of intersecting Human Rights and nuclear energy. The general objective of this article is to establish a connection (for dignity) between human rights and nuclear energy. Still having as specific objectives, first to investigate that nuclear energy, even though it is a risky technology, is important. Second, Brazil has one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world, an essential element for obtaining atomic energy. Third, dignity as an element of intersection or union of the concepts of human rights and nuclear energy. As for the method, it is an exploratory-descriptive study, with a qualitative approach to the existing bibliography, accompanied by consultations to journal and newspaper websites. The results achieved were that dignity, its value in itself, its absolute value, in what differentiates it or differs from other living beings, proves the hypothesis as true that nuclear energy should be guided by the culture of Human Rights.