TY - JOUR TI - Tree planting in deserts and utilization of atomic energy AB - Global environment problems are discussed actively, concretely, those are the warming of the earth, the advance of desertification, the damage due to acid rain, the decrease of tropical forests, the pollution of sea, the depletion of ozone layer and so on. Most of these phenomena advance gradually. However, the advance of desertification is different from other phenomena in that the people in the areas concerned are deprived of their living space and even their lives are threatened at this moment. Desertification is advancing on global scale, and its rate is estimated to be 60,000 km{sup 2} yearly. Especially the area where the advance is remarkable is the southern edge of Sahara Desert, which advances southward at 10-30 km in one year. Recently also in Japan, the interest in the prevention of desertification has become high, and the experiment on tree planting in a desert using a huge desert dome of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 'Desert Aquanet concept' of Shimizu Construction Co., Ltd., 'Sahara green belt project' of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and so on were published. Water and energy for tree planting in deserts, utilization of atomic energy for seawater desalination and the technical fields to which Japan can contribute are reported. (K.I.). AU - "Hattori, Sadao" AU - "Minato, Akio [Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan)]" AU - "Hashizume, Kenichi" AU - "Handa, Norihiko" KW - "29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY" KW - "DESALINATION PLANTS" KW - "DESERTS" KW - "NUCLEAR ENERGY" KW - "AFRICA" KW - "PLANTS" KW - "POWER DEMAND" KW - "PRODUCTION" KW - "RESOURCES" KW - "WATER" KW - "ARID LANDS" KW - "DEMAND" KW - "ENERGY" KW - "HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS" KW - "INDUSTRIAL PLANTS" KW - "OXYGEN COMPOUNDS" KW - "290300* - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment, Health, & Safety" KW - "290600 - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy" DO - https://doi.org/ UR - PB - CY - Japan PY - 1991 DA - 1991-06-01 LA - Japanese J2 - [] VL - 33:7 C1 - C2 - C3 - C4 - C5 - L3 - Journal Name: Haikan Gijutsu (Piping Engineering); (Japan); Journal Volume: 33:7 ER -