Of all the studies in physics, the study of the atom has done the greatest harm to humanity in its entire history. The only result was the creation of an atomic bomb and its use in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The effect for nuclear scientists was so overwhelming that they frantically began to look for how else achievements in the study of the atom could be used.
And they couldn't find anything better, than to continue playing with fire, creating a slow nuclear chain reaction in order to generate a heap of heat, which is converted into electricity.
And from the beginning of the 60s to Chernobyl, everything went well. Nuclear power plants, submarines, and surface nuclear ships (aircraft carriers in the United States and icebreakers in the USSR) were quickly built and even exploited with some success.
And then Chernobyl happened. Anyone who is familiar with the process in a nuclear reactor knows that this is a kind of atomic bomb, which is simply in a state of being about to explode. In this state, a lot of heat is released, and so that it does not explode, it is controlled by complex and expensive systems, to which little attention was paid before Chernobyl.
The Chernobyl disaster slightly reduced the human euphoria with the use of the atom, but did not stop it. Perhaps the construction of nuclear power plants is shifting from developed to developing countries. Russia quickly resumed the construction of nuclear ships as soon as West began to pay significantly more for oil. In other countries, although the construction of nuclear facilities has slowed down, it has not stopped and is not going to stop.
After all, if we remove all the dangerous atomic objects, then it turns out that the atomic scientists will simply have nothing to do. Of course, no one admits this, and therefore we see in the media either a description of the harm from nuclear facilities, then the construction of new ones with further assurances that now everything will be OK for sure.
With its use, in fact, the only problem is that they assure that everything will be fine, plus increased secrecy. If we don’t build nuclear facilities near densely populated territories and don’t invent that we need them in huge quantities, then the attitude towards the nuclear sector will improve and the problems will disappear.
But nowadays problems only growing.
