USSR explodes H-bomb. 1954 Nuclear electricity supplied to town in USSR for first time. Major new phase of uranium mining started in Australia. However, the facility was owned by the US Navy and was from the same design as that for the world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus. The nuclear reactor at Calder Hall in the UK was connected to the national electricity grid.
Early citizens protest on waste dumping in Massachusetts waters.
1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. 1967 Non-Proliferation Treaty prohibiting transfer of nuclear technology for weapons but encouraging transfer of nuclear power technology. 1972 French atmospheric nuclear explosions in Polynesian islands provoke protest and boycott on French trade in Australia. First large citizen occupation by 30,000 people of nuclear reactor site at Whyl, West Germany. 1976 National one-day trade union strike against Mary Kathleen uranium mine.