research question

What are the debates involved in the nuclear power topic in China and USA?

Description

USA and China have a different age of nuclear reactors and tradition. USA is the nation with more active nuclear power plants and the reactors age is quite old compared to the others reactors around the world. On the other hand in China the situation is different, there are a lot of young reactors and this and of energy is also quite new for this country.

We firstly wanted to see if these two countries have debates on the Nuclear Power and if they had debates in common.

The debates in Usa are more articulated and they have many different topics. In China most of the debates talks about reactors as technology, power, safety and accidents.

Protocol

We collected all the pages related to the wikipedia page “Nuclear Power Debate” both for english page and chinese page. For the english pages we used the tool Seealsology and for the chinese one we collected the see also pages manually.

After collect all the data we made a visualization with Gephi and visualized the net relation of the chinese and american pages.

Data

Data source: Wikipedia English Page, Wikipedia Chinese Page , Seealsology

Seealsology allows you to explore in a quick and dirty way the semantic area related to any Wikipedia Page. It doesn’t work with chinese Wikipedia pages and for that we explored the data manually.