Fission

Timeline
 1789 - Martin Klaproth discovers uranium
1898 - Marie Curie discovers polonium and radium. She also coins the term
Radioactivity.
1911 - Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize for the discovery of polonium and
radium
1934 - Marie Curie dies of aplastic anemia, caused by exposure to
radiation.
1938 - Nuclear fission is discovered by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz
Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fermi wins
Nobel Prize for "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive
elements produced by neutron irradiation and for his related discovery of
nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons"
1942 - The first successful nuclear fission occurs at the University of
Chicago. Beginning of the Manhattan Project.
1944 - Hahn is awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering nuclear fission.
1946 - The Atomic Energy Commission is created in the US.
1947 - End of the Manhattan Project, The first Nuclear reactor in the UK is
built.
1951- EBR-I became the first power plant to produce usable electricity
through atomic fission.
1956 - The first commercial nuclear power plant in the UK is built, it is
named Calder Hall.
1979 - March 28, Three-mile island disaster in the USA is called the worst
nuclear disaster on American soil.
1986 - 26 April, Chornobyl Disaster in Ukraine, about 30 die directly in the
reactor meltdown.
2011 - March nuclear disaster in Fukushima, a 15-foot wave damages the
power supply and cooling for 3 Fukushima Daiichi reactors the 3 reactors
melt down.
2011 and after - Starting with Germany many nations suspend nuclear
power plant creation and countries start to dismantle reactors all over the
globe.