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28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station

  • 28th March 2021
  • Tagged as: Electricity, Nuclear, Pennsylvania, Radiation, Radioactivity, Science
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The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to service.

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20th April 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie prove the existence of radium

  • 20th April 2020
  • Tagged as: Chemistry, Curie, Discovery, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Physics, Radiation, Radioactivity, Radium, Science
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Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride.

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