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= Nuclear -- History =

= Nuclear energy has not been used for a very long time compared to the other energy resources. It is the newest energy source. =

== =__//** Nuclear History From 1789 - 1982 **//__=
 * = 1789 = || = A German Chemist named Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovered uranium = ||
 * = 1896 = || = Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity = ||
 * = 1919 = || = Ernest Rutherford discovered nuclear fission = ||
 * = 1930's = || = Scientists discovered that the nucleus of an atom can be split apart with a neutron = ||
 * = 1938 = || = Enrico Fermi was the first to split a uranium atom = ||
 * = 1940's = || = The first atom-splitter was built in Hanford, Washington = ||
 * = 1942 = || = Enrico Fermi produced the first controlled chain reaction = ||
 * = 1954 = || = The first nuclear power plant was built in Obininsk, Russia = ||
 * = 1954 = || = The first nuclear powered submarine (the USS Nautilus) was launched = ||
 * = 1955 = || = The nuclear reactor was patented by Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard = ||
 * = 1955 = || = Arco, Idaho became the first U.S. town to be powered by nuclear energy = ||
 * = 1956 = || = The first commercial nuclear power plant was built in Great Britain = ||
 * = 1957 = || = The first nuclear power plant was built in the United States = ||
 * = 1959 = || = The first privately funded nuclear power plant, named the Dresden Nuclear Power Station began to operate = ||
 * = 1979 = || = In Pennsylvania, at the Three Mile Island facility, the facilities top half of the uranium fuel rods (the rods that hold uranium fuel) melted and a small amount of radioactive material was released = ||


 * = 1982 U.S. Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Table By: Caden = ||

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= In 1986, the Ukraine Chernobyl Power Plant explosions took the top off of it's reactor building and spread radioactive waste. At least 100,000 people had to evacuate their homes, 200 workers were treated for radioactive sickness and 31 people died immediately (also in later years there were birth defects in the ecosystem including humans). = = =

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= In 1990, 55% of the world's uranium mining was underground. Then, in 1999, 33% of the world's uranium mining was underground. Congress and the president approved Yucca Mountain Repository in 2002. The repository was supposed to be a geological repository for spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive waste. In 2010, only 28% of the world's uranium mining was underground. People have harnessed nuclear energy from the atom for over 50 years in the United States. = = = = = = Click **//HERE//** to go to the previous page Nuclear Intro-Formation = = = = Click **//HERE//** to go to the next page Nuclear Obtaining The Resource =