Nuclear Energy: Mid-Twentieth Century

Nuclear energy is the energy created in a nuclear reaction which is the changes can occur in the structure of the nuclei of atoms. Nuclear energy was discovered in the mid-twentieth century and first utilized in a military capacity in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It all started rather innocently in 1896, when Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in Uranium. The next step came in 1902 when Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radioactive metal called Radium. In 1934, Enrico Fermi of Italy disintegrated heavy atoms by spraying them with neutrons. Unfortunately, he didn’t realize that he had achieved nuclear fission, In December 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman in Berlin did a similar experiment with Uranium and were