切尔诺贝利事故,在世界范围内引起了对核电站的重新评价。对核电的批评者们重申了他们的观点:核技术有它固有的危险性。核电的支持者们承认:公众对反应堆安全的信念再次被动摇,如果核工业要继续存在下去,并且发挥其巨大潜力,那么必须恢复这一信念。一些核电的支持者坚决主张:只有在现有的反应堆上增加新的安全系统,并对核电厂的操作人员加强培训和监督,才能确保反应堆的安全,恢复人们对反应堆安全的信念。本文中,核物理学家哈罗德·埃格纽和核工程师托马斯·约翰斯顿 The Chernobyl accident caused a reevaluation of nuclear power plants around the world. Critics of nuclear power reiterated their view that nuclear technology has its inherent dangers. Proponents of nuclear power have admitted that the public belief in reactor safety is once again shaken off, and if the nuclear industry is to continue to exist and exert its enormous potential, that belief must be restored. Some proponents of nuclear power have insisted that only adding a new safety system to an existing reactor and training and monitoring operators of the plant will ensure the safety of the reactor and restore confidence in the safety of the reactor. In this article, nuclear physicist Harold Eggnu and nuclear engineer Thomas Johnston