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The history of nuclear power is an evolution of scientific discoveries directed toward understanding the internal makeup of the atom. A key discovery was made in 1932 by Sir James Chadwick, an English physicist, who determined that a highly penetrating form of radiation found by other researchers was actually an uncharged particle with a mass approximately equal to that of a proton. This particle was named the neutron.
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Drbal, L.F. (1996). Nuclear Power. In: Drbal, L.F., Boston, P.G., Westra, K.L. (eds) Power Plant Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0427-2_23
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