Informative Essay On Atomic Power

Frank Wu

Mr. Kruse

9LL2

18 December 2016

Atomic Power

Needed of energy is a problem for humans for centuries, people use fossil fuel, natural gases and many different kinds of things to provide the energy they need. Somehow, a powerful kind of energy was discovered during the 1900s, and that's the atomic power. From the very first discovery of losing electrons and give out radiation was first named “ radioactivity” during 1896 from Pierre and Marie Curie. The history of atomic power begins. The use of this energy was mostly developed in 1895 to 1945. Radioactivity is a process of releasing protons and gives out radiation like gamma rays over time. It is also called nuclear energy. The process of generating energy can be done through nuclear

Knowledges of nuclear energy grew fast to the 1900s. Francis Perrin, a French physicist first claimed the concept of using uranium to process nuclear fission to make a bomb. Atomic bomb is a really strong atomic weapon that release strong mass of energy during nuclear fission and destroy its surroundings when it activates. During World War Two, Germans start inventing atomic bombs. In 1939, due to the inventing process of the Germans, American president Franklin Roosevelt permitted The Manhattan project because of the Einstein’s warn of the threat of Germany to continue the invention of atomic bombs. In July 1945, the first fully functioned atomic bomb was created. The bomb cost 1000 million US dollar for the American government to develop. America became the only country that made atomic bomb successfully during World War Two. After the war of Pearl Harbor, Americans drop two atomic bomb, one in Nagasaki, one in Hiroshima to make the Japanese pay what they’ve done.Einstein died in 1955, he helped invented the most powerful weapon in the world till the modern day, but made it for peace among the world. After the invention of atomic bomb, people keep on finding ways that nuclear power can benefit

“Atoms for Peace” progress was proposed in 1953 by president Eisenhower of the united state. Physicist discovered the heat that released from the process of nuclear fission can be captured and used to generate electricity. This kind of technology was invented in America, but technology was shared with Britain, while French, Russian and Chinese developments proceeded separately. World first nuclear powered electric generator begin operation in 1954. Some generator even add up to icebreaker or some aircraft carrier to provide underwater vehicles energy and cool down the generator at the same time. The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was put to sea in 1955. This kind of technology on underwater vehicles is still developing. The submarine deliver a lot of power from a very small volume and therefore run on highly-enriched uranium to generate the reactor and produce electricity. However it still produce plenty of wastes from the reactions. After the nuclear power provide us and new way of generating energy on vehicles, it keep on transforming its use to generate power for a region of