A civil matter involves legal actions between individual people or businesses over issues like personal injury, breach of contracts, property rights, etc. A criminal actâ¦ion involves legal actions between the government and individual people for violation of that government's laws against criminal behavior.
Nuclear energy was discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel, when he found that photographic plates stored near uranium compounds reacted as though they had been exposed to light in a way similar to X-rays.uclear reactors produce energy from uranium through an atomic fission reactionâthat is, radioactive atoms are split apart and the energy that is released in that fission is harnessed to produce heat and electricity.
Later that month, President Harry S. Truman announced to the American people that the Soviets too had the bomb. Three months later, Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who had helped the United States build its first atomic bombs, was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets.t a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name âFirst Lightning.â In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb.