a brief history of nuclear power
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A Brief History of Nuclear Power
Samin VossoughiRad3rd Year student
Amercican University for Humanities
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1919
Earnest Rutherfordd is credited with splitting the atomd
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1934
Enrico Fermi achieves nuclear fission
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1942
Enrico Fermi builds Chicago Pile 1, the first nuclear reactor
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1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are nuked, scarring public opinion of nuclear technology
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1951
EBR-1becomes the first reactor to generate electricity
Experimental Breeder Reactor I
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1954
The USSR’s obninsk nuclear plant becomes the first to generate electricity for power grid
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1957
Yankee Rowe-1 becomes the first commercial nuclear plant
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1965
The first nuclear reactor is operated in space
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1972
Half of three miles Island core melt down
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1986
The first catastrophic nuclear power accident happens in Chernobyl, USSR(now Ukraine)
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2006
The survey in USA shows a high level of support for nuclear power, 68% were in favor of it