Nuclear Power Links New! The Birth of Nuclear Power in America By Jack Kelly When residents of western Pennsylvania awoke on December 18, 1957, 50 years ago today, they became the first Americans to make their breakfast toast with energy generated by nuclear fission. During the night, the Duquesne Light Company had brought on line the first large-scale commercial atomic generating plant, which had been built in the township of Shippingport, 38 miles northwest of Pittsburgh...(more) U.S. Company Seeks Permit to Import Nuclear Waste Drought could force nuke-plant shutdowns U.S. Nuclear Waste Repository Foes Speak Out Why the French Like Nuclear Power France's Nuclear Waste Heads to Russia Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program, Independent Institute Asserts Nuclear waste: A long-lived legacy