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E33: The Untold History of Nuclear Energy with Packy McCormick and Julia DeWahl

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

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The Development and Growth of Nuclear Energy

This chapter explores the history and rapid growth of nuclear energy in the 1950s and 1960s, including the increasing size of reactors and the surge in orders in the 1960s. It also highlights the factors that contributed to the decline of nuclear energy, such as economic considerations, increasing regulation, and major disasters.

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