This story appears in the December 2008 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe Â». Starting a business was the last thing on Sean Hackney's mind when he sat down to write a business plan. Hoping to persuade a soft drink company to hire him, Hackney scripted a plan for taking on his former employer, Red Bull North America Inc.
1 Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time.
The first commercial nuclear power stations started operation in the 1950s. Nuclear energy now provides over 11% of the world's electricity from about 450 power reactors. Nuclear is the world's second largest source of low-carbon power (>30% of the total in 2015). 50 countries utilise nuclear energy in about 225 research reactors.