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1 Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time.
This was more than one-fourth of theworldâs operating plants. Nuclear energysupplied almost 22 percent of the electricityproduced in the U.S. The Experimental Breeder Reactor I generated electricity to light four200-watt bulbs on December 20, 1951. This milestone symbolized thebeginning of the nuclear power industry.