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Comment: Uses of nuclear energy.

  • UPSC 1998
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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Nuclear energy is the energy released when atomic nuclei split (fission) or fuse (fusion). Since the first controlled chain reaction in 1942 it has been a dual-use technology: the same reactor that makes electricity can make plutonium. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech (1953) led to the IAEA (1957), and Article IV of the…

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  • Electricity generation
  • Non-power uses
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