the parking garage
who knew they had such a modern parking garage in reno in 1955, elevators bringing up cars 6 stories high? pretty cool!
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shareIn 1955 they had electric power, tv, jet planes, atomic power, indoor plumbing, all sorts of cool stuff!
shareAtomic power?
Assuming you meant nuclear power plants, the world's first commercial nuclear power station actually only opened in 1956. And that was in England. The USSR had one in 1954, but it wasn't commercial. The first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to supply electrical energy to a commercial grid (VEPCO) opened in April 1957.
The U.S. military was making use of nuclear power in a limited way in 1954. So I guess there was nuclear power in the U.S. in 1955, but not in a way that the average person had any contact with it.
Sorry for the history lesson, but your post motivated me to look it up and I like sharing. :)
Yes, "atomic power" is a colloquial way of saying "nuclear power" in informal conversation, and it's clever of you to have figured that out.
No need to apologize for the "history lesson", here's one in return:
Electricity was generated by a nuclear reactor for the first time in Idaho, USA, in 1951. The Soviet Union used a nuclear reactor to produce electricity for a power grid in 1954.
Whether or not those examples were "commercial" is irrelevant to the statement I made in my original post, which was that atomic power (electricity generated by a nuclear power plant) existed by 1955.