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Modular Nuclear Reactors

By MarkCraft

  • Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann Split Uranium Atom

    Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann Split Uranium Atom
    Discovery of Fission

  • Einstein Delivers Letter to President Roosevelt

    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.
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    World War II

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    Manhattan Project

  • First Controlled, Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction

    First Controlled, Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction
    Done at the University of Chicago by a team headed by Enrico Fermi.
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    Cold War

    History.com Cold War

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima

  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Bombing of Nagasaki

  • Atomic Energy Act

    Atomic Energy Act
    Established the American Atomic Energy Commision. Defined how nuclear power would be regulated in the US.

  • Plans to Commercialize Nuclear Power

    Plans to Commercialize Nuclear Power
    Westinghouse Corporation begins building Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pennsylvania.

  • First Useable Amounts of Electricity Generated by Nuclear Power

    First Useable Amounts of Electricity Generated by Nuclear Power
    Idaho National Laboratory
    Experimental Breeder Reactor No.1 lights three light bulbs with electricity from nuclear power.

  • Atoms For Peace Speech

    Atoms For Peace Speech
    Atoms for Peace Speech

  • Atomic Energy Act of 1954

    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

    USS Nautilus SSN 571
    First Nuclear Powered Submarine

  • Borax III Reactor

    Borax III Reactor
    Arco, Idaho becomes first town in the world to receive all of its power from Nuclear Energy.
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    Army Researches Small Nuclear Reactors

    The Army Nuclear Power Program developed a Small, Pressurized Water Reactor at Fort Belvoir, Virginia in 1957

  • International Atomic Energy Agency

    International Atomic Energy Agency
    IAEAStarted with 18 member states to promote peaceful use of Atomic Energy
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    Army Develops Mobile Pressurized Water Reactor for Remote Locations

  • Zero Power Physics Reactor

    Zero Power Physics Reactor
    Zero Power Physics ReactorTest facility to test on a very small scale new nuclear technology.

  • Energy Reorganization Act of 1974

    Energy Reorganization Act of 1974
    The Energy Reorganization Acto of 1974Split the Atomic Energy Commission into the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

  • Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident

    Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
    US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Report

  • Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Fully Openx

    Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Fully Openx
    One of the most highly contested Nuclear Power Plant Openings in US history, opened even after thousands of Anti-Nuclear Energy Protestors rallied to try to prevent it. The Power Plant sits on a fault line that has produced large earthquakes in the past. Plans had to be revised during construction as this was found out.

  • Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Meltdown

    Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Meltdown

  • Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

    Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
    International Atomic Energy Agency Report

  • NuScale Expects to Have a Plant in Production After Receiving Approval by NRC

    NuScale Expects to Have a Plant in Production After Receiving Approval by NRC
    NuScale

  • Westinghouse Expects Their First Modular Nuclear Reactor to Generate Electricity

    Westinghouse Expects Their First Modular Nuclear Reactor to Generate Electricity
    Westinghouse's SMR