THE GOOD THING ABOUT SAFE ATOM

Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled use of nuclear fission to release energy for work including propulsion, heat, and the generation of electricity. Nuclear energy is produced by a controlled nuclear chain reaction and creates heat — which is used to boil water, produce steam, and drive a steam turbine. The turbine can be used for mechanical work and also to generate electricity.

Although nuclear power generates many megawatts of power, the waste produced and risks often make it a controversial choice. As a result, different nations have very different attitudes towards nuclear power; some, such as France, generate most of their electricity by nuclear power, while others, such as Italy, have decommissioned, or are planning to decommission, all of their nuclear power stations.

Many military and some civilian (such as some icebreaker) ships use nuclear marine propulsion, a form of nuclear propulsion.

International research is ongoing into different safety improvements such as passively safe plants, the use of nuclear fusion, and additional uses of produced heat such as the hydrogen production (in support of a hydrogen economy), for desalinating sea water, and for use in district heating systems.

The world's first nuclear power plant began to work in the USSRs Obninsk on June 27, 1954 to generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts electric power. Before that time nuclear energy was mainly used in the military purposes. The launch of the first Nuclear Power Plant initiated a new direction in energetics, which gained general acceptance on the First Geneva Conference in August 1955. In 1957 EURATOM was launched alongside the European Economic Community (the latter is now the European Union). The same year also saw the launch of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall in Sellafield, England was opened in 1956 with an initial capacity of 50 MW. The first commercial nuclear generator to become operational in the United States was the Shippingport Reactor (Pennsylvania, December, 1957).

The whole world was immersed into an epoch of nuclear power. Thousands of enterprises concerning in any case to construction and maintenance of nuclear power stations have appeared all over the world. As of 2004, nuclear power provided 6.5% of the world's energy and 15.7% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for 57% of all nuclear generated electricity. As of 2007, the IAEA reported there are 439 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world, operating in 31 different countries.

The United States produces the most nuclear energy, with nuclear power providing 20% of the electricity it consumes, while France produces the highest percentage of its electrical energy from nuclear reactors—80% as of 2006. In the European Union as a whole, nuclear energy provides 30% of the electricity. Nuclear energy policy differs between European Union countries, and some, such as Austria and Ireland, have no active nuclear power stations. In comparison France has a large number of these plants, with 16 currently in use.

One of the founders of the company ‘Safe Atom’ István Kovács all his life have been dreaming to be engaged in problems of nuclear power. But man proposes God disposes. Because of a lack of money István Kovács had to give up the idea to enter the Institute for Nuclear Research and he has started speculating on a stock exchange.

Owing to self-education in the sphere of nuclear physics István Kovács has been able to receive handsome profits investing money in the various organizations engaged in nuclear power engineering.

At the moment there are more than 20 employees in the Safe Atom Company. They are mainly economists, but the founders of the company including István Kovács are physicists. The collaboration of experts has made it possible for company to be successfully engaged in investments in the sphere of nuclear power engineering for last decade.

There invest in companies which:

- are engaged in production of nuclear fuel, Uranium-235
- provide transit and delivery of nuclear fuel to nuclear power stations
- project and participate in construction of nuclear power stations
- take nuclear power stations out of service

There don’t invest in the companies which are engaged in nuclear-waste disposal. In spite of the fact that these companies have considerable gain such business is riskiest. Many countries have very strict nuclear-waste disposal legislation. Therefore such companies’ activity very often provokes public indignation and as a result the companies cannot meet the treaty commitments of nuclear-waste disposal to their customers.