Campanita, Tinkerbell, La Fée... The mischievous one that protects the mythical Peter Pan at the Disney factory, we've seen it a thousand times since we were children. When he appeared on the TV of the 1960s in black and white presenting the magical regions of Disneyland -- Frontierland, Tomorrowland, Adventureland and Fantasyland -- we didn't realize that that winged girl painted the symbol of radioactivity.

In November 2012 Canal Plus France Catastrophes nucléaires de Camille Lepomellec: It showed the documentary Histoires secrètes, which you can see on the Internet today, as they are not known by the citizens about atomic energy. Many of them realized Walt Disney's work on atomic energy propaganda.

When the film takes an hour and twelve minutes, the voice-over notes that in April 1979 the accident at the Harrisburg power plant caused the first nuclear evacuation, which caused doubts to many Americans about the goodness of the atom: “From the beginning of nuclear, to calm the population, who was terrified by radiation, the government and the industrialists rolled out several films to go through schools and television. This was produced by Walt Disney in 1957.” And after the famous Campanita tickets, which we have seen a thousand times in our childhood, the special theme of the week opens: Our friend, the Atom, our colleague Atomoa.

The Canal plus documentary shows the Disney movie to a marriage that had to flee from home in the accident at the Three Mile Island power plant in Harrisburg in 1979. They remember it well. “They taught us in elementary school, in the science field. On the screen it was more enjoyable than in the book. In addition, I was cartoon, even nicer.”

Although it also has paper version -- our friend the baptized atom -- it was the film that actually left the mark. Cartoons were seen in school by boys and girls from the years 1950- 1960. You can also see it on the Internet with subtitles in Spanish.

Ivan Jimenez Montalvo explained in the blog The pencil formula that made Our friend, the Atom so effective. “As a fundraiser, Disney invented the spectacle of entertainment and scientific dissemination; linking business interests with attention to pedagogy; mass communication and social responsibility.” In other words, atomic energy, which proved its military value in the world war, then became a line of business, doing the work very well to corporations.

Disney announced that the atomic age was going to revolutionize the world as did the bronze age and industrialization. The main energy source of the future would be nuclear. Just as the atomic bomb had been outdated by the previous conventional explosion, oil could outperform nuclear forces such as coal. Nuclear was going to colonize all areas of life. An inexhaustible, clean, waste-free energy.

Monster murderous our servant

Our friend, the Atomen, as in all sections of the Disneyland program, Walt Disney himself presents the atom icon: “Our future is in the atom. Everyone wants to understand how it works.”

The 20,000 leagues of Jules Verne depart from the famous submarine that the captain exploded so that his energy does not fall into anyone’s hands. Nautilus Walt Disney, known to all young people in fiction, will introduce it by equating it to the atomic submarine of the same name as the US Army. What's happened in the middle?

Our friend, the scientific officer at The Atomen, the physicist Heins Haber, explains it to us. Accompanied by stories, also “because we have realized that the topic is very similar to the stories of the Duendes. Specifically, the 1001 nights with the Fisherman and the genius of the book.”

There was a fisherman who had been very poor for a long time. One day, after repeatedly knocking down the nets, a bronze jar came into his hands. She had her mouth covered with a lead cap. Surprised by the finding, the fisherman is convinced that a boat so tightly closed should have something beautiful.

When the old fisherman opens it up, an incredible genius is discovered from the boat. “I’m going to kill you,” he says fearfully, and when the fisherman asks him why he has to do so, the genius tells him: “I have been in prison for many centuries on this boat. I've been engulfed by cholera, I've been greatly magnified, and I've sworn that whoever freed me would have to die."

To escape death, the waking fisherman intends to ask the monster a question: “How is it possible that a being as powerful as you are in such a small boat?” The genius grew out of anger. “How? Do you doubt that I can get back into the boat?” When he embarks to win the bet on the fisherman, he will catch the genius. Until the giant recognizes that he has a predator and that he will do everything he asks of him.

Here's the essence of atomic energy, briefly explained by Heins Haber, friend Xerezade. From there, the explanations of the energy that the world has to change will extend to the end. In theory, starting with Democrite and much later by John Dalton, Amadeo Avogadro, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, etc. In practice, showing in a didactic way how a nuclear reactor works.

At the end of three quarters of an hour, together with General Electric and the most powerful multinationals, Walt Disney taught children and young people that the world would be filled with thousands of reactors, that radiation would serve to improve plant and animal production. Thousands of small suns were ignited on the surface of the earth.

Our friend, the Atome didn't see the danger of the atom if we didn't talk about atomic weapons on the road: Hiroshima and Nagasaki had seen how deadly they are, but the civilian atom would work very differently, like a god dominated by physicists and engineers.

Nuclear power stations lack waste in propaganda disguised as pedagogy. Pollution is minimal. That's why the Disney Our friend documentary, the Atom, is so deadly. It hides the people of countries with nuclear power a large part of the truth, a contagious truth that is at the root of the damage suffered by people when accidents have increased.