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E=mc2. Energy= Mass x Speed of light, squared.Mass can be converted into energy
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James Chadwick discovers the Neutron, one of the three subatomic particles.
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Irish and British scientists join to split the atom.
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First Uranium atoms split using the process of fission. Several atoms released heat energy, confirming E=mc2.
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The Manhattan Project- American top-secret atomic energy program. Scientists employed to develop the first atomic bombs, one Uranium, one Plutonium.
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The Manhattan Project- American top-secret atomic energy program.
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Russia: Greater understanding of nuclear fission with the possability fo a chain reaction.
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Atomic Energy Commision established to control atomic energy after the war.
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The US passed the atomic energy act, allowing private businesses to supply nuclear energy as well as build power plants.
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BORAX-lll was the first nuclear power plant in the world to supply an entire town with electricity. The plant suplied total electricity to the town (pop. 1200) for over an hour.
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Nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island suffers a major saftey scare when water pump when secondary pressurized water reacor failed. As a result there was a partial meltdown and small radiation release.
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The disaster occured when unauthorized experiments took place in a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine resulting in the overheating of four water-pressurized reactors. The power plant ignighted and dangerous radioactive particles were released and spread over much of Europe.