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Who built the first nuclear reactor?
Could we store nuclear waste on the moon?
The storage of nuclear waste in space does not appear to be an attractive option. Storage would generally be limited, time-wise, by the life time of the container. An Page 12 exception to this is the lunar surface mission since remote mining techniques could be employed to recover the waste from the lunar surface.
What is first nuclear age?
The nuclear age began in mid-July 1945 when an 18.6-kiloton nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. … That was followed three days later by the dropping of another bomb on Nagasaki. The term nuclear age was coined almost immediately after the two bombs were used.