III. Application to the generation of electric power

IT IS ONLY SINCE THE TURN of the century that the general subject of nuclear physics has been advanced to its present state. Prior to World War II much research and investigation had been carried on in this field with the result that some of the potentialities locked within the atom were becoming apparent to a few individuals. Books had been written which contained enough information to make people in engineering fields generally aware that the application of atomic energy in the field of the generation of electric power might some day be a possibility.