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Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann Split Uranium Atom
Fission was discovered. -
Einstein Delivers Letter to President Roosevelt
Written by Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard, the letter meant to bring FDR's attention to the military capabilities of Nuclear Fission. -
First Controlled, Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction
Done at the University of Chicago by a team headed by Enrico Fermi. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
US drops atomic bomb on Japan. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
US drops another atomic bomb on japan. -
Atomic Energy Act
Established the American Atomic Energy Commision. Defined how nuclear power would be regulated in the US. -
Plans to Commercialize Nuclear Power
Westinghouse Corporation begins building Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pennsylvania. -
First Useable Amounts of Electricity Generated by Nuclear Power
Experimental Breeder Reactor No.1 lights three light bulbs with electricity from nuclear power. -
Atomic Energy Act of 1954
Allowed private companies to license the right ro use nuclear materials, build, and operate nuclear power plants. -
USS Nautilus SSN 571
First Nuclear Powered Submarine -
Borax III Reactor
Arco, Idaho becomes first town in the world to receive all of its power from Nuclear Energy. -
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Started with 18 member states to promote peaceful use of Atomic Energy. -
Zero Power Physics Reactor
Test facility to test on a very small scale new nuclear technology. -
Energy Reorganization Act of 1974
Split the Atomic Energy Commission into the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
Nuclear power plant explodes. -
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
Nuclear plant in Japna explodes. -
NuScale Expects to Have a Plant in Production After Receiving Approval by NRC
NuScale wants to build a clean nuclear power plant. -
Westinghouse Expects Their First Modular Nuclear Reactor to Generate Electricity
First water plant to generate electricity.
