5 Things Netflix Got Wrong about Nuclear Power in its History 101 Series
(WorldNews France)

While the episode correctly states that Russia became the first country to connect its nuclear power plant to the grid, the United States was actually the first to generate electricity from a nuclear reactor. On December 20, 1951, Argonne National Laboratory`s EBR-I powered four 200-watt lightbulbs and eventually generated enough electricity to light the entire facility. That paved the way for other reactors to eventually build upon this success. Russia`s Obninsk APS-1 provided 5 megawatts of electricity to...