What was the atomic age?

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atomic age concerns the era immediately after the first atomic bomb in 1945 until the early 1960s, when the enthusiasm of the nuclear energy decreased. The phrase of the "atomic age" includes the enthusiasm that many felt after the discovery of atomic power and weapons. People felt as if they were on the brink of a new era of civilization, where everything would be driven by atomic energy, from cars to plane to trains to home to rocket ships.

However, there is a risk of atomic apocalypse during the Cold War, along with several nuclear accidents, but quickly reduced the enthusiasm for nuclear technology. Regardless of this, many argued that they were returning at present, by no means due to the attractiveness of nuclear energy as the primary energy source without emissions.

It should be expected that mankind will be exposed after the discovery of a new energy source other than the chemical energy sources for our history. One kilogram of uranium burned in a conventional nuclear reactor produces more energy than 200 barrels of oil.Scientists predicted "energy too cheap for a meter" and a utopian society. In 1958, Ford introduced his nuclear concept car, Ford Nucleon. The Defense Department created a low height nuclear missile in the Pluto project. Different patterns for nuclear aircraft were thrown around.

What caused the collapse of an atomic age was not only a ghost of nuclear war, but also the real challenges and capital costs of nuclear energy. Nuclear power plants require heavily shielded reactor vessels and extremely complex safety equipment operated by competent staff ( Simpsons regardless of that). Although we are doing progress today in reducing costs, it has been more than 50 years since the first nuclear reactor and there is much more work. For example, future nuclear reactors based on Thorium rather than uranium would not pose any risk of melting or proliferation.

Atomic ageHe had one successful heritage - a fleet of the US Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines. It is a nuclear trump card of the United States until this day, not only able to be driven by nuclear energy, but in the case of submarines if it could be needed.