Arguably, no form of technology has sparked both fear and enthusiasm quite the way  nuclear energy  has. In the 1950s, the peaceful use of nuclear fission boomed, and it remains to this day the ultimate deterrent in military matters. Significant nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island (Pennsylvania, 1979), Chernobyl (Soviet Union, 1986), and Fukushima (Japan, 2011) dampened support for atomic energy. More recently it has been touted as a low carbon and therefore environmentally friendly

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