I'm John Thatcher with my good colleague, Simon Constable.

Fuel, fuel for industry, fuel for people, especially electricity.

The demands of electricity are climbing for the rest of this century.

Nuclear power and fuel.

Simon, you've done a quiz that I didn't not know all the answers this time.

What kind of quiz is it?

It's a quiz about the history of the commercial use of nuclear power,

i.e. making electricity.

So it's a clean, clean energy story, really, about who did what to make

nuclear power for civil purposes happen. So it wasn't Los Alamos. Well, it was making a bomb.

It was all to do with the other scientists who came up with ways to make this work in a safe way. It was very interesting,

and I knew none of the answers before I started poking around. Well, I think I told you the story of my

12-year-old birthday present. So I'll ask the first question of everybody. Here we go. How informed

are you about peaceful nuclear power?

What was the location of the first nuclear power plant added to an electric grid?

Obnensk, Russia, Calder Hall, England, Shippingport, Pennsylvania, Marcula, France,

Karl near O'Shafenburg, Germany.

And the answer is, Simon?

The answer is Obinisk, Russia.

And the Russian reactors were early to the game.

I built the shipping port, Pennsylvania model that was issued sometime around my

12th birthday. That would have been 1959 in 1960. And it teaches that we're talking about boiling

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