Apr 11, 2022 09:00:00

Walt Disney loved nuclear power

By NASA

Blogger Ned Donovan explains why

Walt Disney , the creator of characters such as 'Mickey Mouse' and the founder of Disney Resort, actually liked nuclear power.

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Walt Disney expressed his preference for nuclear power in 1957, about 40 years before Aladdin was born. The world situation at that time was particularly concerned with nuclear power generation, when President Eisenhower had just called for a shift from military use to peaceful use of nuclear weapons in his speech ' Atoms for Peace ' in December 1953. It was a time when it was rising.

The episode aired in Walt Disney's heart-warming program series ' Disneyland ' during this period was 'Our Friend the Atom.' At the beginning of this episode, Walt Disney spins a model of an atom in his hand and says, 'Nuclear power is our future.'

Walt Disney then introduced Professor

Heinz Harbor, who has the title of Senior Researcher in Nuclear Science, saying, 'We have embarked on several nuclear projects because we recognize that nuclear power is important.' When Professor Harbor opens the book, the animation scene begins, and the scene that can be said to be the prototype of Aladdin, 'When a man wearing a turban rubs a lamp, a genie comes out' is played, and Einstein's E = mc ² The explanation of is started.

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Mr. Donovan says that the movie itself and the rumor that Professor Harbor was once an avid supporter of the Nazis are also 'surreal', but Walt Disney's enthusiasm for nuclear power is not only this 'Our Friend the Atom' It didn't end. An example of this is Reedy Creek Improvement District, a land that was once owned by Walt Disney and is about 40 square miles (about 104 square kilometers, equivalent to 2200 Tokyo Domes).

According to one theory, Walt Disney hated the chaotic tenants around Disneyland when trying to build a 'Disney World' in Florida following the success of Disneyland in California. Walt Disney wanted a vast land to prevent third parties from building tenants on their own, and Florida responded to this request.

Due to the above circumstances, Walt Disney wanted complete control within the district and demanded almost complete autonomy from the Florida State Capitol. The city council of the district is made up of senior employees of Disney, and Disney has exercised strong authority over building regulations, water and sewage facilities, fire departments, law enforcement agencies, roads, and so on.

And when requesting the Florida State Capitol for this Reedy Creek Improvement District, Walt Disney specifically asked for 'the authority to build a nuclear power plant freely.' Walt Disney continued to show a keen interest in nuclear power, but died of lung cancer pneumonia on December 15, 1966. Due to the above-mentioned authority, Disney could build a nuclear power plant in the area, but eventually it began to draw electricity from outside the area, and it was Disney World that was built in the area in 2014. It was a biogas facility that generated electricity from the garbage collected in.