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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Despite Fukushima, Global Nuclear Power on the Rise


Despite Fukushima, Global Nuclear Power on the Rise
One outgrowth of the U.S. super-secret WW2 Manhattan Project, which produced the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, six years later, in 1951, a small experimental reactor in the United States produced the world’s first electricity generated by nuclear power. The first fully commercial nuclear power plant was constructed in the U.S. Dresden Unit 1 in Illinois had a capacity of 250 meg

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