how can i find the history of nuclear power?
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NUCLEAR POWER\nIn the mid-1950s, nuclear physicists confidently predicted that nuclear energy would usher in a golden age for humanity: the cost of energy would be so low it would be "too cheap to meter." They predicted that, by the year 2000, there would be one thousand commercial reactors and one thousand "breeder" reactors producing unlimited amounts of power. Like the horse and buggy, oil and coal would become little more than historical curiosities.\n\nNuclear power has exceeded some of these early predictions. Its safety record, when compared, say, to the airline industry, is vastly superior. Compared to the air pollution and acid rain caused by the coal industry, its environmental record is admirable. It currently generates over 15 percent of the nation's electricity and has thus reduced the dependence on scarce fossil fuels. Some claim it may also reduce the impact of the greenhouse effect.\n\nIronically, however, this same industry is also teetering on the verge of collapse. Contrary to previous expectations, the United States now has over one hundred commercial reactors, the breeder reactor program is defunct, and there has not been a single reactor order since 1978, one year before an accident at Three Mile Island. Over one hundred reactor orders have been canceled, and costs have escalated so that the Nine Mile Point reactor in upstate New York will soar beyond $6 billion, or about six times the cost of a coal plant of similar power.\n\nNever in modern history has a major technology, with the full backing of industry and the government, come to such an abrupt halt. Well over $100 billion has been invested in nuclear energy, yet the people of California voted to close down an operating reactor, and the people of Long Island, New York, are closing down the fully completed $5 billion Shoreham reactor before it opens.\n\nUtilities that invested heavily in nuclear power have been driven to the wall by its mounting costs; the Washington Public Power Supply System went bankrupt, and the Long Island Lighting Co. incurred billions in losses. What went wrong? \n\nAlthough the reasons for this unprecedented collapse are complex, many of the problems can be traced to unwise decisions made in the 1950s. Specifically, when the Nautilus nuclear submarine sailed effortlessly beneath the North Pole, it touched off a stampede among corporations interested in the commercial development of nuclear energy. The 1960s marked the "gold rush" in reactors, when General Electric, Westinghouse, Combustion Engineering, and Babcock-Wilcox scrambled to bring this technology to the marketplace. In fact, Con Edison even applied for a license to build its Ravenswood reactor in the heart of New York City opposite the United Nations.\n\nBecause large plants are more economical than small ones, designers started with the small (40-megawatt) Nautilus reactor and essentially scaled it up many times to the current 1,000-megawatt design, without clearly thinking through the consequences. Decades later, this would lead to three serious problems. First, in retrospect, scaling up the Nautilus design was a poor choice to begin with because the light-water Nautilus reactor is highly susceptible to a rapid melting of the uranium core. Alternate designs (e.g., gas-cooled high-temperature gas reactors) were much more stable against a meltdown but were ignored. Second, this meant that elaborate and expensive emergency core cooling systems had to be installed, which would later add hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost of the reactor and delay construction for several years. Third, no attention was paid to how reactors would be decommissioned after thirty to forty years of use or where the radioactive nuclear waste would be disposed of.\n\nIn 1957, a prophetic, but secret, report was issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory, called wash—740. It estimated that a meltdown, a Class 9 accident, could cause $7 billion in pro
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Go to the History Channel's website.
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http://www.si.edu/archives/historic/history.htm#sib
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go to ask.com and type in were can i find history relating ........( what your question is
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Check their website... it should be under the history section.
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http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/r/rocknrollexpress.html\n\nits the site I usually go to for wrestling history
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http://www.sedona.net/fdetat2/history.html\n\nthis should help
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Here you go:\n\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/
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look at history us.gov
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http://www.museumstuff.com/museums/usa/ohio/history.html
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ALOT just see for yourself.\n\n(It's a chart)\n\nhttp://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datab9.asp
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The Department of Energy is storing a great deal of it in water bathes at the Nuclear Research Facility in Idaho.\n\nThey U.S. Navy used to have three proto type reactors operating there; S1W, A1W and S5G.  It was included as part of the Nuclear Training program until each site was shut down and replaced with other facilities...\n\nI was trained at A1W myself back in 1993...\n\nTo this day, the Department of Energy is the largest single source of employment in the Idaho Falls, Arco area...  Arco has the honored history of being the first U.S. city powered by Nuclear Power\n\nThere are other facilities in Nevada and Arizona, but I do not have personal knowledge of those locations.
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_history.html
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Try these links:\n\nhttp://www.solarviews.com/eng/history.htm\nhttp://www.history.com/minisites/space/\n\nOr this search link:\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmrH4VhFwlEBFLxXNyoA?p=space+exploration+history&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt\n\nfor more sites to visit.\n\nGood luck!
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http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/byheading.php?sub=history
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A brief internet history \n\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident