从全球到地方:重水在国际核项目中的发展(1945-1970)

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Cold War Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1162/jcws_a_01158
Gloria Sanz-Lafuente
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由于重水的生产和利用方式,它具有独特的商业历史和结构。在20世纪40年代末和50年代,重水反应堆提供了几乎取之不尽的核能发电的梦想。这是因为他们可以使用天然铀,也可以生产钚,钚可以用作增殖反应堆的燃料(也可以作为核武器的裂变材料)。在合成肥料生产中使用的若干方法和材料,也可以以稍加改进的形式用于生产重水。然而,生产重水的成本非常高,需要大量的电力和先进化学工业的基础设施。在一些国家,化肥与重水工业有着密切的关系。这些国家的政府寻求增加国内化肥贸易和发展国内核计划,支持这两个行业。西班牙核能委员会和Energía e Industrias Aragonesas在Sabiñanigo的案例在这方面具有指导意义。
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From Global to Local: The Development of Heavy Water in International Nuclear Programs (1945–1970)
Abstract Because of how heavy water is produced and used, it has a unique business history and structure. In the late 1940s and 1950s, heavy-water reactors offered the dream of nearly inexhaustible quantities of nuclear power generation. This was because they could operate using natural uranium and also produce plutonium that could be used as fuel in breeder reactors (and also as fissile material for nuclear weapons). Several of the processes and materials used in synthetic fertilizer production could also be used, in somewhat modified form, in the production of heavy water. Yet the production costs for heavy water are exceedingly high, requiring copious amounts of electricity and the infrastructure of an advanced chemical industry. This article suggests that in several countries the fertilizer and heavy-water industries had a close relationship. The governments in those countries, seeking to increase the national trade in fertilizers and to develop domestic nuclear programs, supported both industries. The case of the Spanish Nuclear Board and Energía e Industrias Aragonesas in Sabiñanigo is instructive in this regard.
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