An enemy of the people and the nuclear energy

It does like a pair of years the National Dramatic Center it put in representation the work of the Norwegian Ibsen, An enemy of the people, in version of Juan Mayorga. It is a play that I was already interested in when they put in that television marvel called Study 1, with José Bódalo, distinguished actor and well-known Real Madrid supporter, in the role of the doctor Stockmann and Irene Gutiérrez Caba giving him the reply. Many interpretations have been done of this denunciation that there does Ibsen of the possibility that the democracy ends up by occurring into demagogy. There is even the one who wants to see a certain justification of the fascism, something that Arthur Miller, author of one of the versions of more success of the work, version that was represented in Spain, in 1973, with Fernando Fernán Gómez and Emma Cohen, denies categorically. Inside the elitist Stockmann speech there was a point for which many have accused it of fascist, but Miller was defending that anybody of the moral integrity of Ibsen could not be a precedent of the fascism. In any case, this work has been, and it will be, controversial because the Stockmann speeches are done from a freethinking man with self-centered personality. The bare Ibsen speech traumatizes because in an epoch in which there is sacralizado the system of formal democracy, this that some of us call of bourgeois democracy, this speech so individualistic that it defends the minority over the majority goes beyond what it is a stage play.
This stage play has come to the memory to the thread of the polemic that is caused by the fact that two municipalities Yebra in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha and Ascó in Tarragona, Catalonia have turned out to be involved in a polemic, of all known, by the installation, or candidacy for the installation, of the receptacle destined to contain the residues proceeding from the Spanish nuclear power plants. And it has come to the memory for the interview, in the program window that Gemma Nierga does to Andreu Carranza, writer and son of Joan Carranza, the mayor of Ascó, who headed the struggle for avoiding the establishment of the nuclear power plant in this locality. In this interview Jordi Martí, the director of informative of Radio Barcelona and reclacitrante and obtuse culé, without taking position, like good journalist, except in the soccer thing, that is, put on the table the fact, practically, proved of that most of the population of Ascó were favorable to the installation of the cemetery in the municipal term. The question, leaving to the margin the discussion sobr the Nuclear energy rests in that it is necessary to look for a place where to keep the generated residues, because they have been generated, we cannot act as if they did not exist, and it seems logical that she is the Ascó not even population, neither that of Yebra nor that of any municipality, of isolated form, which decides on the suitable place. It should be the Government, and in this case the Government of Spain, which was taking the decision about the place adapted for this installation, assuming the popularity, or unpopularity, of the decision. Yesterday the same, and also in the chain Ser, Pepe Masa, mayor of Rivas, I hope that many years for the good of the ripenses, high place and skylight expressed it.
It has served, on the other hand, all this polemic to bring to the first plane the debate again on the Nuclear energy, one debates that some of them, so well-intentioned as badly informed, try to settle with a Nuclear yellow sheet and the motto not, thank you. The debate cannot be established between nuclear energy yes or nuclear energy not. This is a barren debate. The nuclear energy, in itself, is neither good nor bad. His use is good if it is used in medicine, for example, to reduce carcinomas hardly operable, and it is bad if it is used to arm heads of missiles. We would begin then to debate on the use of the nuclear energy to generate consumption energy, and before continuing, should bear in mind, that, theoretically there are two types of nuclear processes, those of fission and those of merger. All the operative head offices, in the world, in this moment are of nuclear fission. So much the head offices that at present existing as those who could have been constructed of merger present, initially two disadvantages: The impact that they could produce in his environment fundamentally determined by the need to refresh the reactor and the safety of the installation. The Chernobil catastrophe revealed the need to carry to extremes to the maximum the safety protocols, something that, certainly, was not done in the already decadent USSR. But the catastrophe, if the same, it does not invalidate the use of the nuclear energy, on having talked each other of a catastrophe perfectly avoidable, as well as the destruction of a prey does not invalidate the hydroelectric production of the energy not the fire of a thermal power station invalidates, only for safety, this type of head offices. That, for being installed badly or badly supported, twenty wind mills were falling down causing innumerable ravages it would not invalidate the production of this type of energy either. As for the environmental impact derived from the warming of the water, generally proceeding from a river and that returns to this river significantly warmer, it is not major than the aggression that, from any point of view, he suffers a region when in her he installs a prey or marsh to himself, is not even major than the greenhouse effect produced by the emission of carbon dioxide. Up to a wind park or a nuclear orchard they have an environmental impact, although it is only from the landscape point of view, and it is not the only one.
The debate begins to center, and in fact this is what now is of actuality, when we enter something that for the fission head offices is inevitable and for it, to my judgment, it discredits of radical form to the current nuclear power plants: the residues. Simplifying a little, the fission process consists of bombarding an isotope, for example the Uranium 235, present in less than 1 % in the natural Uranium, with a relatively heavy particle, for example a neutron, initially there gives place to Uranium 236 that splits, hence the term fission, producing Barium 141 and Kripton 92, in a process in which a part of the mass transforms in energy as the conodísima formulates E = Δ mc ². The problem is in that to do with this barium and this kripton that there are unstable isotopes capable of continuing the process up to producing a chain reaction, and that it will keep on being unstable for much that you bury in cemeteries to test of everything.
There is the one who thinks, I do not finish of realizing it well, that this problem of the residues would end if we were advancing towards merger head offices. In effect the merger of nuclei of slightly heavy atoms, it usually put the limit in the iron (Faith), produces a matter transformation in energy following the familiar one E = Δ mc ². Here there is no speculation position that is a process that takes place before our eyes since it dawns until it gets dark, in the Sun. The most classic merger, which is that of the stars, is the deuterium - tritio, or deuterium - deuterium, isotopes of the hydrogen, to give place to Helium, which is a noble and inert gas. Since... it seems clear: Let's construct merger head offices! But..., because there is peros, we have a problem, which not even Huston can solve. In the Sun, in general in the stars, we see, and feel, the process already in march, a process that, everything seems to indicate, it begins with a fragmentation of a nebula, initially cold. One, or several, of the fragments becomes condensed until ten reaches approximately millions of grades, and there it begins, and later it continues in chain, the merger reaction earlier described. The need for so important energy contribution to initiate the process can justify itself for the fact that we are trying to melt two nuclei, that is to say two atoms without electronic crust loaded, therefore, positively. And two electrical charges with the same sign as the basic beginning of the electromagnetism is repelled. We would come to the absurdity of having to provoke a fission reaction, with the problems earlier described, to be able to initiate the wished merger. It is trying to be advanced in the field of the cold fusion, but it seems still distant to me, however much beech who augurs for the outskirts of 2020 the first nuclear power plants with merger reactor. Both in the line of investigation of the battery of Palladium / oxide of Zirconio, and in the attempt of replacement of the crust eléctronica of the deuterium for muones that will reduce positive load to the nuclei, favoring the merger of these, the things seem to go very slowly, between other things because the big multinationals of the energy, starting by the oil-bearing centers are very little interested in advancing for this area.
It is convenient that those who put the sheet Nuclear not, thank you, I have never put it to myself, be able to defend this motto with arguments. If it is not like that they will lose, we will lose, the debate.