energy

This report by the US Atomic Energy Commission estimates the possible damage from a meltdown at a large nuclear reactor.

The US Price-Anderson Act limits the liability of the nuclear industry in the event of an nuclear accident.

Economist William Stanley Jevons explores the implications of Britain’s dependency on coal.

The first major oil price crisis shocks Western industrial nations and initiates a long history of price fluctuations of this finite resource.

This dam project alters the Niger delta’s previously dynamic and self-regulating ecosystem.

Thomas Edison produces his first long-lasting light bulb.

English engineer Thomas Savery patents a steam engine for removing water from mine shafts; with subsequent improvements, the device would later drive the Industrial Revolution.

At the Gothenburg Summit in 2001, the European Council agreed upon a sustainability strategy for the European Union.

US President Bill Clinton announces the “Greening of the White House” to begin on Earth Day 1993.