Could Chemical Plants Go Nuclear?

I WAS born in the era of Atoms for Peace — President Eisenhower’s Cold War strategy to shift the focus from the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the hope of peaceful, productive and profitable uses for nuclear power. That strategy made some headway. From small beginnings in the 1960s, nuclear power generation expanded rapidly around the world through the 1970s, 80s and 90s.