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
