A brief history of nuclear power

A Brief History of Nuclear Power

Samin VossoughiRad3rd Year student

Amercican University for Humanities

1919

Earnest Rutherfordd is credited with splitting the atomd

1934

Enrico Fermi achieves nuclear fission

1942

Enrico Fermi builds Chicago Pile 1, the first nuclear reactor

1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are nuked, scarring public opinion of nuclear technology

1951

EBR-1becomes the first reactor to generate electricity

Experimental Breeder Reactor I

1954

The USSR’s obninsk nuclear plant becomes the first to generate electricity for power grid

1957

Yankee Rowe-1 becomes the first commercial nuclear plant

1965

The first nuclear reactor is operated in space

1972

Half of three miles Island core melt down

1986

The first catastrophic nuclear power accident happens in Chernobyl, USSR(now Ukraine)

2006

The survey in USA shows a high level of support for nuclear power, 68% were in favor of it