Commercial Nuclear

Some articles on nuclear, commercial nuclear:

Nuclear Energy In The United States - History
... Research into the peaceful uses of nuclear materials in the US began shortly after the end of the Second World War under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission, created by the United States Atomic ... On May 26, 1958 the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States, Shippingport nuclear power plant, was opened by President Dwight D ... As nuclear power continued to grow throughout the 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission anticipated that more than 1,000 reactors would be operating in ...
Nuclear Power - Nuclear Proliferation
... Many technologies and materials associated with the creation of a nuclear power program have a dual-use capability, in that they can be used to make nuclear ... When this happens a nuclear power program can become a route leading to the atomic bomb or a public annex to a secret bomb program ... The crisis over Iran's nuclear activities is a case in point ...

Famous quotes containing the words nuclear and/or commercial:

    “The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.”
    —Ronald, Sir Mason (b. 1930)

    “So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)