An Apology for Nuclear Energy Based Mainly on Social Corruption

Abstract

With the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity was horrified by what man can do with the destructive power of nuclear energy. After several “accidents” that occurred in nuclear plants, particularly the accident at the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, 18 km from the city of Chernobyl, in 1986, nuclear energy has been demonized, mainly in different media and communication forums. Here in this work, a broad review of critical events related to nuclear energy is carried out and it becomes clear that in many of them, something very human is present, which is Social Corruption not only in the war use that has been given to it. It is shown that, if this social scourge is reduced to its minimum expression, nuclear energy can be an important factor in solving global energy supply problems. Without a doubt, nuclear energy has been mishandled, from the beginning, the problem of radioactive waste should have been resolved first, before generalizing its commercialization. Like many others, it is a solvable problem. Finally, it is pointed out that technologies, such as nuclear energy, are not the problem, rather the problem is often the use that human beings give to technologies.