Nuclear Power Plant Elements The Cold War End

Mounting tension in an increasingly nuclear world.

Nuclear energy vs fossil fuels efficiency nuclear weapon youtube. This according to a study by the british nuclear engineering company nuvia. November 9 1989 the fall of the berlin wall. And anti communist demonstrations across eastern europe culminate in the destruction of the berlin walland an end to the decades long cold war.

Salmon suggests two facts dominated the cold war era which is defined for the purposes of this theme study as the period between 1945 and 1991. The original 22000 spent fuel elements dumped in andreeva bay are coming from 90 100 reactor cores powering the soviet unions cold war submarines sailing out from the naval bases along the coast of the kola peninsula from the late 1950s to 1982. August 29 1949.

The end of the cold war and beyond as relations between the two superpowers continued to improve into the 1980s the soviet union elected mikhail gorbachev to lead the country. Reprocessing is the name given to the physico chemical treatment of spent nuclear fuel carried on at sellafield in cumbria since the 1950s. By the end of this period moscow had a mature nuclear weapons technology base and a thoroughly integrated and redundant weapons complex the configuration of which remained largely the same until the end of the cold war.

But this time it wasnt an act of military aggression but an accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant and the soviets were trying to hide it. Paranoia about nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war was a distinguishing feature of cold war society. The prospect of a nuclear event from the soviet union had long loomed over europe.

The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the united states the soviet union and their respective allies during the cold warduring this very period in addition to the american and soviet nuclear stockpiles other countries developed nuclear weapons though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. The first half of the cold war was marked by a nuclear arms race between the superpowers. The initial rationale for reprocessing in the 1950s to the 1980s was the cold war demand for fissile material to make nuclear weapons.

Nuclear proliferation was also a concern with several other nations developing nuclear weapons. The 1950s and 1960s were the formative years of the soviet nuclear program. This period is of particular interest.

On april 26 1986 the cold war was starting to come to a close tensions were not nearly as high as in the sixties and seventies and nuclear energy was being used to power cities. Upon election gorbachev introduced a series of reforms many of which attempted to continue to limit the amount of nuclear power each nation had. Cold war defensive sites author john s.

On april 26th 1986 it seemed like the worst of the wests cold war fears had been realized.