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||2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. | ||2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. | ||
||Georges Charpak (d. 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Pic. | |||
||2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921) | ||2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921) | ||
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1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."