HISTORICAL NOTES

1789 discovery of U by M.H. Kleprathe by treating pitchblende with HNO3. It was in fact an oxide named after (Uranus 1781)
1841 obtaining metal by Peligot by heating UCl4 with K only use is for coloroing purposes
1896 discovery of radioactivity by Bequerel and Marie Curie U was mined for its Ra content
1932 discovery of neutron by Chadwick
1938 discovery of fission by Otto Hahn et al. in Berlin
1939 World War 2
1941 discovery of Pu by Seeborg at al.
1942 fast chain reaction at Chicago Pile1 by Fermi at al.
1945 July16 Trinity-Alamogadro(Los Alamos)(Pu), August6 Hiroşima(U bomb), August10 Nagazaki(Pu bomb)
1951 1st nuclear electricity demo -> 4 bulbs were turned on Idaho(EBR-1)
1954 APS-1 (Obninsk Moscow) 5 MWe (ancestor of reactors)
1960 1st commercial Nuclear Power Plant(NPP), Dresden-1 (U.S.) 207 MWe
1965 48 NPPs -> 5.25 GWe
1970 89 NPPs -> 16.65 GWe
1975 175 NPPs -> 72.5 GWe
1980 253 NPPs -> 136.8 GWe
2000 ~440 NPPs -> 350 GWe