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[98] [99] Nuclear power generation had the biggest ever fall year-on-year in 2012, with nuclear power plants globally producing 2,346 TWh of electricity, a drop of 7% from 2011. This was caused primarily by the majority of Japanese reactors remaining offline that year and the permanent closure of eight reactors in Germany.
This timeline of nuclear power is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear power. This is primarily limited to sustained fission and decay processes, and does not include detailed timelines of nuclear weapons development or fusion experiments .
Proposals to amend the Constitution must be properly adopted and ratified before they change the Constitution. First, there are two procedures for adopting the language of a proposed amendment, either by (a) Congress , by two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, or (b) national convention (which shall take place ...
1959 – Nuclear tests in Antarctica are banned under the Antarctic Treaty. [36] 1959 – Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba and creates a Marxism–Leninist government aligned with the Soviet Union. 1959 – The Soviet Union scales back nuclear assistance to China as a result of the emerging Sino-Soviet split. [27]
The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the course of history, as its operation launched the Atomic Age.
This was the first disaster in civilian nuclear power plants. By the Three Mile disaster, "China syndrome" became a vogue word, anti-nuclear movements occurred in the United States. Following the Three Mile Island accident, changing economics, increasing regulation, and public opposition many planned nuclear power projects were canceled.
Nuclear power's contribution to global energy production was about 4% in 2023. This is a little more than wind power, which provided 3.5% of global energy in 2023. [167] Nuclear power's share of global electricity production has fallen from 16.5% in 1997, in large part because the economics of nuclear power have become more difficult. [168]
When Germany pulled the plug on its last three nuclear power stations in April 2023, it became a net importer of energy from France, which produces 70% of its energy from nuclear.