Nuclear Power: History, Dangers, and Waste

Nuclear fallout/waste Nuclear power: It all started in the 1950’es after the second world war where the scientist developed how to make nuclear energy. Nuclear energy forms when uranium is split into two smaller atoms, and some of the initial mass is transformed into big amounts of energy which can create an explosion. And that can also happen in nature. You can make the reaction go slowly and that is what you do when you make a nuclear power station. The British people were the first to make a nuclear power station, but why would they make nuclear power when