The Greening Of Uranium
In 1932, Albert Einstein, considered by many to be the most influential scientist of the 20th century, made a startling prediction. Einstein, who years before had unlocked the possibility of virtually unlimited energy with his equation E = MC2, said confidently “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” Just 13 years later the world was blasted into the nuclear age with the detonation of the first nuclear explosion in the New Mexican desert, followed shortly by the obliteration of Hiroshima and…