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Martin Klaproth discovers Uranium
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Research and work on Nuclear Energy
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First controlled nuclear chain reaction
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First Nuclear plant to make electricity
This was just a test and only a small amount of electricty was produced. -
Atoms for Peace
President Eisenhower started program that started the plan for nuclear energy. -
First Business reactor
The first reactor to sell electricity -
Three Mile Island
A partial melt down of reactor 2 allowed very little radio active materil out. No one got sick from it. But it stopped all building of new plants in the U.S. They stopped building because people didn;t want them to and becuase new safety standards were very expensive. Reactor one is still being used, but plans to close in 2019 -
Chernobyl Accident
Accident in Chernobyl Russia killed 30 people and made nuclear power even more unpopular -
Nuclear Power Today
About 11% of global electricity is from Nuclear power. If we want to try to stop global warming we need to make this number bigger, but do it safely. -
Sources
http://energyinformative.org/nuclear-energy-pros-and-cons/
https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-and-global-warming#.W58Zos5Kjcc
https://sciencing.com/about-6134607-nuclear-energy-vs--fossil-fuel.html
https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power#.W58dpc5Kjcc
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-the-worlds-nuclear-power-plants -
