Awakening from the Moratorium
Three years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Assembly of Yugoslavia declared a moratorium on the construction of nuclear facilities on Yugoslav territory. This was done without significant scientific discussion, riding the wave of fear that swept over the citizens of our country. Thus, the nuclear program, which was very successfully developed in Yugoslavia in the seventies of the last century, was sealed for many years, especially in the nuclear institutes of Vinča (Belgrade), Ruđer Bošković (Zagreb), and Jožef Stefan (Ljubljana), as well as in Energoinvest (Sarajevo). Before the Chernobyl accident, the first nuclear power plant was built in the Slovenian town of Krško, which is still operating successfully today, and the Yugoslav program was on the verge of deciding to build four more nuclear power plants, two of which in Serbia, which would be of enormous benefit to Serbia today. At that time, international loans could have been obtained, and the nuclear power plants would have started operating at the beginning of this century. Numerous experts from our institutes completed specializations in the best nuclear centers in the world, there was a lot of enthusiasm, and Yugoslavia was predicted a bright nuclear-energy future.
