「ミニ地球」に関するシンポジウムとテレビ会議イベントの考察

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The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (MIRAIKAN) held a symposium and a TV conference event concerning the Mini-Earth project for the general public. The project, being currently conducted in Rokkasho-Mura Aomori in Japan, aims to study propagation and accumulation of 14C to be released from a reprocessing site of spent nuclear fuel. For this purpose, it is necessary to establish a sustainable closed environment, similar to that required for human inhabitancy in space, and provides unique research opportunities. The main theme of the symposium was agriculture in space. After the symposium, a disscussion meeting was held between reserchers and mass media about the expectation from the project. The meeting also discussed the suggested role of science museums, to connect the general public with scientists/researchers. Based upon the results of those discussions, a TV conference event was held at MIRAIKAN on Sep. 10th 2005. In this study, the new approaches of the science museum which involves not only scientists/public but also mass media is examined.
2006-04-30