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1980 - 2001

By TrentMaddox

  • Energy Security Act

    President Carter signs the Energy Security Act, consisting of six major acts: U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act, Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act, Renewable Energy Resources Act, Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Act and Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank Act, Geothermal Energy Act, and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act.

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan is inaugurated President.

  • Nuclear Waste

    The Reagan Administration announces a nuclear energy policy that anticipates the establishment of a facility for the storage of high-level radioactive waste and lifts the ban on commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel.

  • Cold War Ends

    President Bush declares the end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapses.

  • George Bush

    George Bush is inaugurated President.

  • Operation Desert Storm

    United Nations coalition forces launch Operation Desert Storm when Saddam Hussein refuses to withdraw from Kuwait.

  • Clinton

    William Clinton is elected president.

  • Genome Project

    President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announce that the International Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corporation have completed a working draft of 95% of the human genetic structure. DOE scientists began the Human Genome Project in 1986 to explore newly developing DNA analytical technologies.