Nuclear industry - a set of enterprises and organizations connected organizationally and technologically that produce products, work and services, the application of which is based on the use of nuclear technology and the achievements of nuclear physics .
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Nuclear Industry Structure
In the structure of the nuclear industry, one can distinguish several large scientific and industrial complexes [1] :
- Nuclear Energy Complex:
- Uranium mining and processing enterprises
- Nuclear fuel enterprises,
- Nuclear energy enterprises ( design , engineering , construction and operation of nuclear power plants ),
- Nuclear and power engineering
- Nuclear weapons complex
- Nuclear and radiation safety
- Nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet
- Nuclear medicine
- Scientific research institutes (applied and fundamental science).
The emergence of the nuclear industry is associated with the creation of nuclear weapons in the 1940s [2] . Historically, in the beginning, mankind began to create atomic weapons on an industrial scale [3] . As a result of the arms race and the new knowledge and technologies that have been gained through the development of new types of nuclear weapons, there is an understanding that a further nuclear arms race is meaningless and that nuclear energy can and should be used for peaceful purposes.
In recent years, the development of the nuclear industry has been on the path to the wider use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Nuclear industry in Russia
The nuclear industry of Russia (see. Industry of Russia ) totals more than 250 enterprises and organizations in which more than 190 thousand people are employed.
Every year, September 28 is the Day of the Worker of the Nuclear Industry .
Notes
- ↑ Nuclear industry . Rosatom. Date of treatment December 29, 2012. Archived January 26, 2013.
- ↑ USSR atomic project. To the 60th anniversary of the creation of the nuclear shield of Russia . Date of treatment November 10, 2012. Archived January 26, 2013.
- ↑ History of the nuclear industry . Date of treatment December 29, 2012. Archived January 26, 2013.
See also
- Nuclear weapon
- Atomic project (USSR)
- Peaceful Nuclear Energy
Literature
- Kruglov A.K. How the nuclear industry was created in the USSR. . - 2nd ed .. - M .: Central Research Institute of Atominform, 1995. - 380 p. - ISBN -5-85-165-011-7.
- Jung, Robert. Brighter than a thousand suns. The story of nuclear scientists. . - Abbr. per. from English V.N. Durneva. - M. , 1961.